Untitled

Artist Richard Diebenkorn American, 1922–1993

Date1949

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions48 x 41 in. (121.9 x 104.1 cm)
Frame: 49 1/2 x 42 1/4 x 1 3/4 in. (125.7 x 107.3 x 4.4 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Mary and Jim Patton

Object number2014.20.17

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceCreated California, 1949; collection of the artist; Elmer Bischoff, San Francisco; to son, Stephen Bischoff; [John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco]; Mary and James R. Patton Jr., Great Falls, VA, October 1977; given to NCMA, 2014.

Published ReferencesB.C.M. [Barbara C. Matilsky], entry for Untitled in Space, Abstraction and Freedom: Twentieth-Century Art from the Collection of Mary and Jim Patton (exhibition catalogue) (Chapel Hill: Ackland Art Museum, 2001), no. 3, illus. (color) 35.

Jane Livingston and Andrea Liquori, Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2016), Vol. 2, cat. no. 666, illus. (color).
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Knoedler & Co., “The Collector as Patron in the Twentieth Century,” May 2–July 31, 2000, listed 53.

Chapel Hill, NC, Ackland Art Museum, “Space, Abstraction and Freedom: Twentieth-Century Art from the Collection of Mary and Jim Patton,” September 9–November 11, 2001, no. 3, illus (color), 35.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “The Patton Collection: A Gift to North Carolina,” March 28–August 23, 2015.
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