Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London (acquired directly from the artist)
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Enschede, Netherlands, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Abstract USA 1958 - 1968: In the Galleries, September 2010 - February 2011, cat. no. 26🐼, p. 63, illust🔥rated in color

This work is in good condition overall. There is evidence of wear and handling along the edges. There are slight variations in the painted surface which indicates that the artist has previously reworked the surface. There are scattered surface accretions throughout which fluoresce brightly under ultraviolet light inspection. Additionally, the edges where the color blocks meet fluoresce brightly under ultraviolet light inspection. The sides of the canvas are uneven and the stretcher bar is revealed in some places. Unframed.
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"I think what I had in mind in connection with these spaces was the example of Matisse- in something like The Red Studio.  It's perhaps an obvious device, but the necessity of separating the colors, that breathing, that soft line, and that identification of [color with] the ground seemed very important to me in those pictures." - Frank Stella