Lot Essay
“The pervasive use of linear incident and other drawing-based elements throughout the work forms a critical focus on both representation and abstraction. While the degree of continuity and change varies within each period and from period to period, the process of making marks that define space and form across a plane was essential to Diebenkorn’s approach at every stage of his career.” (J. Livingston and A. Liguori, eds., Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné, Volume One, New Haven and London, 2016, p. 119)