#14, 1965

Catalog #136

oil on canvas
Signature: initialed and dated upper right - KB65
Date: 1965
42 x 42 in.
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Provenance:

Collection of Tony DeLap (acquired directly from the artist);
Orange County Museum of Art Benefit Auction, Santa Ana, California, September 15, 2007 (gift of the above);
Private Collection (acquired from the above, 2007);
[Los Angeles Modern Auctions, Modern Art + Design, May 6, 2012, Lot 138];
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina (acquired from the above, 2012).

Exhibition History:

Buenos Aires, Argentina, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo;  Global Exchange: Geometric Abstraction Since 1950, August 31, 2012 –January 8, 2013. Also exhibited: 
Miami, Florida, The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, November 8, 2014 – January 4, 2015;
Rome, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea (MACRO), May 7 – September 14, 2014.

Buenos Aires, Argentina, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Geometric Obsession: American School 1965 -2015, October 16, 2015 – March 13, 2016.

References:

Grant, Daniel. “Results are Mixed at Regional Auction House Sales.” ArtNews, 15 May 2012.

Humblet, Claudine. The New American Abstraction 1950-1970. Vol. 1, Milan: Skira, 2003, reproduced in color on page 496.

Morgan, Robert C., Kuspit, Donald Burton, and Stephen Westfall. Buenos Aires, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Geometric Obsession: American School 1965–2015. Buenos Aires: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires, 2012, pp. 35, 56, 71, 79 and 187.

Houston, Joe, et al. Global Exchange: Geometric Abstraction Since 1950. Buenos Aires: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires, 2015, reproduced in color on pages 136-137.

Credit:
Image courtesy of Rago/Wright/LAMA.