Collection of Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc., New York (acquired directly from the artist)
Acquired from the above by the present owner

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Vancouver Art Gallery; Calgary, The Nickle Arts Museum; New York, Seagram Building; Ontario, London Regional Art Gallery, Drawings by Sculptors: Two Decades of Non-Objective Art in the Seagram Collection, May 1984 - June 1985, p. 49,  illustrated

This work is in very good condition overall. The sheet is hinged intermittently verso to the mat and there are artist's pinholes at the four corners. There is evidence of pale time staining and a slight undulation to the sheet. Under close inspection, there are a few scattered areas of stray medium and rubbing to the graphite likely from the time of execution and consistent with the artist's choice of medium and working method. Framed under Plexiglas.
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