Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993)
Still Life with Book
signed with initials and dated 'RD 58' (lower left); signed again and dated again 'R DIEBENKORN 1958' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
17 x 19 in. (43.2 x 48.3 cm.)
Painted in 1958.
Provenance
Poindexter Gallery, New York
Harold M. Fondren, New York
David Steinmetz, Corona del Mar
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Private collection, San Francisco
Paul Sack, San Francisco, acquired from the above
John Beggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1993
Exhibited
New York, Museum of Modnern Art, Contemporary American Still Life, 1966, no. 9.
Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery and The Oakland Museum of Art, Richard Diebenkorn: Paintings and Drawings 1943-1976, November 1976-January 1977, p. 68, no. 35 (illusatrated).
San Francisco, John Beggruen Gallery, The Collectors' Perspective: American and European Paintings and Drawings from Private Collections, September-October 1993.
Lot Essay
The present work will be included in the forthcoming Richard Diebenkorn Catalogue raisonné under number RD 1242.
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