Acquired by the present owner directly from the artist in 1991

Houston, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery; Alberta, Canada, Illingworth Kerr Gallery; University of California Los Angeles, Hammer Museum; Sacramento, Crocker Art Museum; Minneapolis, Frederick R. Weisman Museum, Critiques of Pure Abstraction, January 1995 - June 1997 

This work is in very good condition overall. The canvas is unlined. There is light wear along the edges and corners with associated scattered pinpoint pigment losses along the lower right edge, visible under close inspection. Unframed.
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