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Beside the Sea No. 34
1962
Acrylic on paper
29 x 22¾ in. (73.7 x 57.8 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 62
references
Galerie im Erker exh. cat. 1971, illus.
p. 12, as Beside the Sea; O’Hara 1975,
p. 77, as Beside the Sea, illus. p. 77
(fig. 5); Moore 1980, cover illus.;
Jennings 1991, p. 19; Caws 2003, illus.
p. 90 (ill. 61).
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Beside the Sea No. 36
1962
Oil and acrylic on paper
29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 62
Recto, lower right: 34
Recto, lower right: 36
present owner
The Art Institute of Chicago.
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New
York, Barbara Neff Smith and Solomon
Byron Smith Purchase Fund, 1967.164
present owner
Collection of Alex Grass
provenance
Art Institute of Chicago, 1967
solo exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York,
December 1962, cat. no. 27, illus. n.p.
Smith College Museum of Art,
Northampton, Mass., 1963, cat. no. 29,
illus. n.p.
group exhibitions
Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, April 1965, cat. no. 66.
references
Arnason 1977b, illus. n.p. (pl. 149);
Arnason 1982, illus. p. 149 (pl. 186).
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provenance
Sophie and Boris Leavitt, Hanover, Pa.,
1964; [Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New
York, April 6, 1967, lot 71 (not sold)];
[Christie’s, New York, November 20,
1996, lot 1, illus.]; Alex Grass, 1996
solo exhibitions
Smith College Museum of Art,
Northampton, Mass., 1963, cat. no. 30.
group exhibitions
Nassau County Museum of Fine Art,
Roslyn Harbor, N.Y., 1981, cat. no. 59,
illus. p. 58, erroneously as By the Sea
#36.
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