Kenneth Noland (1924-2010)
Property from an Important West Coast Collection 
Kenneth Noland (1924-2010)

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Kenneth Noland (1924-2010)
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acrylic on canvas
85 x 85 in. (215.9 x 215.9 cm.)
Painted in 1965.
Provenance
Lawrence Rubin Gallery, New York
Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Rowan, Los Angeles
Wanda Hansen, Sausalito
Graham Gund, Boston
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 4 May 1989, lot 122
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Exhibited
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, A Private Vision: Contemporary Art from the Graham Gund Collection, February-April 1982.
Providence, Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, and Southampton, The Parrish Museum, Definitive Statements: American Art, 1964-1966, March-June 1986, p. 129 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

"No internal edge echoes or repeats the defining edges of the support; the bands seem cut from some larger and expanding chevron shape that, at the same time, is clearly delimited by interlocking with the picture's literalness. And so reciprocal is the interlocking that each expands laterally or vertically in response to the other. Thus Noland obtained a more flexible format and was no longer limited to the square."

(K. Moffat, Kenneth Noland,, New York, 1977, p. 58-60.)

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