LOT DETAILS

Materials:

spray enamel on plywood

Measurements:

27.95 in. (71.00 cm.) (height) by 87.01 in. (221.00 cm.) (width) by 1.97 in. (5.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed, titled and dated 1964 on the reverse

Exhibited:

San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, A New York Collector Selects..The Seventh Selection of the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art, 1965 New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Los Angeles, Otis Art Institute Gallery of Los Angeles County, Richard Tuttle, September 1975 - February 1976, p. 87, illustrated (titled Silver Abstraction) (Los Angeles only) Tokyo, Sezon Museum of Art, Richard Tuttle: Selected Works 1964-1994, 1995 San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Des Moines, Des Moines Art Center; Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Art of Richard Tuttle, July 2005 - June 2007, fig. 44, illustrated in color

Literature:

Peter Schjeldahl, Art of Our Time: The Saatchi Collection, Vol. 1, London, 1984, pl. 120, illustrated in color Kenneth Baker, Minimalism: Art of Circumstance, New York, 1988, p. 75, illustrated in color

Provenance:

Robert A. Rowan, Los Angeles (acquired directly from the artist) Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles Saatchi Collection, London Sotheby's New York, May 1, 1991, Lot 113 Acquired by the present owner from the above