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Beside the Sea No. 5
Beside the Sea No. 64
Beside the Sea
1968
Acrylic and graphite on paper
30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
1968
Acrylic on paper
30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
1968
Acrylic on paper
30¼ x 21⅞ in. (76.8 x 55.6 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left: RM 68
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left: RM 68
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower left: RM 68
present owner
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery (present
whereabouts unknown, stolen, 1970)
present owner
David Nisinson
present owner
The Museum of Modern Art, New
York. Gift of the artist
provenance
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, 1969;
present whereabouts unknown (stolen
from the Queen Elizabeth 2, 1970)
comments
This work was consigned to the
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery in
November 1969 and was lost or stolen
as it was being shipped to Marlborough
Fine Art, London, aboard the Queen
Elizabeth 2 sometime in early 1970.
Our reproduction is from an early
black-and-white photograph of the
work (Nelson photo no. 36286).
provenance
Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, 1976;
Eleanor Segal, Philadelphia, 1977;
[Sotheby’s, New York, May 11, 2006,
lot 254, illus.]; David Nisinson, 2006
provenance
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
1969
Group exhIbItIons
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
June 1969, cat. no. 78.
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