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Provenance: Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York
Donald B. Marron, New York
The Pace Gallery, New York
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 4 November, 1987, lot 40
The Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles
Their sale; Sotheby's, New York, 14 November 2000, lot 15
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
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Exhibited: Düsseldorf, Stadtische Kunsthalle; Eindhoven, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum; Kunsthaus Zurich; Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais and Vienna, Museum des XX Jahrhunderts, Ad Reinhardt,1972, p. 70, pl. 35, no. 39 (illustrated in color).
New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Ad Reinhardt: A Selection from 1937 to 1952, March 1974, p. 28, cat. no. 51 (illustrated).
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Ad Reinhardt and Color, December 1979-January 1980, p. 54, no. 22 (illustrated in color).
New York, Museum of Modern Art and Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ad Reinhardt, June 1991-January 1992, p. 66 (illustrated in color).
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Negotiating Rapture: The Power of Art to Transform, June-October 1996, pp. 80 and 194, no. 22 (illustrated in color).
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Literature: L. Lippard, Ad Reinhardt, New York, 1981, p. 93, pl. 16 (illustrated in color).
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Notes: Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967)
Abstract Painting
signed, titled and dated 'Ad Reinhardt "Abstract Painting, 1950-51"' (on the backing board)
oil and acrylic on canvas in artist's frame
78 x 24 in. (198.1 x 61 cm.)
Painted in 1950-1951.
