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Artist |
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Richard Diebenkorn |
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Title |
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Ocean Park No.117
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Medium |
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oil, graphite and charcoal on canvas |
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Size |
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45 x 45 in. / 114.3 x 114.3 cm. |
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Year |
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1979 - |
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Description |
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Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993)
Ocean Park No. 117
signed with initials and dated 'RD 79' (lower left); signed again, titled and dated again, 'R. DIEBENKORN OCEAN PARK #117-1979' (on the reverse)
oil, graphite and charcoal on canvas
45 x 45 in. (114.3 x 114.3 cm.)
Painted in 1979 |
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Misc. |
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Signed, Inscribed |
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Sale Of |
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Christie's New York: Wednesday, May 13, 2009
[Lot 29]
Post War and Contemporary Evening Sale
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Estimate |
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*
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Sold For |
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*
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Provenance |
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M. Knoedler and Co., Inc., New York
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Kolin, New York, 1979
By descent to the present owner
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Exhibition |
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New York, M. Knoedler and Co., Inc., Richard Diebenkorn, Ocean Park 117-125, November-December 1980 (illustrated on the cover).
Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, The 37th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, February-April 1981, p. 48, no. 1.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Art of Richard Diebenkorn, October 1997-January 1999, p. 228 (illustrated in color)
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Literature |
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P. Richard, "Abstract Audacity: The Corcoran Biennial," Washington Post, 19 February 1981.
A. Lewis, "The New of The Best. But the Best of The New?," Art News, May 1981, pp. 152-155.
J. Bordeaux, "Los Angeles, A New Center for Contemporary Art," Connaissance des Arts, November 1981, p. 99.
G. Nordland, Richard Diebenkorn, New York, 1987, p. 205 (illustrated in color).
D. Burkhart, "Art Books Take On the Color," San Jose Mercury News, 29 November 1987.
The Berthe and Oscar Kolin Collection, Pace Wildenstein Gallery, New York, 1996, pp. 46-47.
G. Nordland, Richard Diebenkorn, Revised and Expanded, New York, 2001, pp. 208 and 215 (illustrated in color)
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