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Ad Reinhardt

Abstract Painting, Black

Estimate

1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD

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Ad Reinhardt

(1913 - 1967)


Abstract Painting, Black

signed (on the stretcher bar); signed, titled and dated 1954 (on the backing board)

oil on canvas, in artist's frame

78 by 78 in.

198.1 by 198.1 cm.

Executed in 1954.

The Estate of the Artist (#118)

Acquired from the above in March 1969 by the present owner

New York, The Jewish Museum, Ad Reinhardt, November 1966 - January 1967, no. 84, p. 71 (text)

New York, Marlborough Gallery, Ad Reinhardt: Black Paintings 1951-1967, March 1970, no. 3, p. 10, illustrated in color and p. 25 (text)

Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Ad Reinhardt, May - July 1973, no. 53, p. 71 (text)

New York, The Museum of Modern Art and Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Ad Reinhardt, May - January 1992, p. 91, illustrated in color (dated circa 1954-56)

Berlin, Zeitgeist-Gesellschaft, Martin-Gropius-Bau and London, Royal Academy of Arts, American Art in The 20th Century: Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993, May - December 1993, no. 125, pp. 15, 118 (text) and p. 315, illustrated in color

Mexico City, Centro Cultural del México Contemporáneo, Pintura Estadounidense: Expresionismo Abstracto, October 1996 - January 1997, no. 87, pp. 488, 572 (text) and p. 400, illustrated in color

New York, Andrea Rosen Gallery, The Thing and the Thing-In-Itself, December 2014 - January 2015