Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Collection of Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Washington, D.C., John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Views of a Forced Landing, May - June 1974
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. 21, illustrated

This work is in very good condition overall. The sheet is hinged intermittently verso to the mat. There is evidence of pale time staining and a very slight undulation to the sheet as well as some minor wear and handling to the edges and corners. The corners of the sheet are slightly dulled and there are a few very minor pinpoint surface accretions visible. Under close inspection, there are several scattered areas of stray medium and rubbing to the charcoal 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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This work is a preparatory drawing for realized work Views of a Forced Landing executed and installed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in 1974.