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Waddington Gallery, London
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kaye, Rumford
Pace Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above in 1990 by the present owner

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Ad Reinhardt, March - June 1985, no. 8, p. 16, illustrated in color (titled Abstract Painting, Red) and p. 130
New York, The Pace Gallery, Sculpture and Painting, July - August 1990
New York, The Museum of Modern Art and Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ad Reinhardt, May 1991 - January 1992, p. 85, illustrated in color
New York, PaceWildenstein, Mondrian/Reinhardt: Influence and Affinity, October - December 1997, no. 24, n.p., illustrated in color
Los Angeles, Hammer Museum, Oranges and Sardines: Conversations on Abstract Painting with Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Mary Heilmann, Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl, and Christopher Wool, November 2008 - February 2009, p. 31, illustrated in color and p. 120