Lot 189
189
Morris Louis (1912-1962)
Property from the Dr. Gerald and Myra Dorros Family Collection
Morris Louis (1912-1962)

Silver II

Details
Morris Louis (1912-1962)
Silver II
acrylic and aluminum paint on canvas
75 1/2 x 95 3/4 in. (191.8 x 243.2 cm.)
Painted in 1953.
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2001
Literature
D. Upright, Morris Louis: The Complete Paintings, New York, 1985, pp. 137 and 196, no. 46 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Milan, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Morris Louis: Dipiniti, March-May 1990, no. 2.
Scottsdale, Riva Yares Gallery and Santa Fe, Riva Yares Gallery, Morris Louis: Major Paintings 1953-1962, March-September 2001, p. 5 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

“The question we always discussed was what to make art about. We didn’t want anything symbolic like say, Gottlieb, or geometric in the old sense of Albers. The Abstract Expressionists painted the appearance or symbol of action, the depiction of gesture. We wanted the appearance to be the result of the process of making it – not necessarily to look like a gesture, but to be the result of a real handling.” (K. Noland quoted in J. Elderfield, Morris Louis, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1986, p. 33)

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