Untitled
1972
Artist, American, 1931-2022
Artwork overview
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Medium
graphite on prepared wove paper
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Credit Line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of William H. G. FitzGerald, Desmond FitzGerald, and B. Francis Saul II)
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Dimensions
image (irregular): 33.02 × 56.83 cm (13 × 22 3/8 in.)
sheet: 43.5 × 63.5 cm (17 1/8 × 25 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.2708
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Leo Castelli Gallery, New York); The Honorable William H.G. FitzGerald, Mr. Desmond FitzGerald, and Mr. B. Francis Saul II, c/o The New York Studio School; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1978; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1982
Acquisitions Since 1975, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1982-1983
1986
American Masters: Works on Paper from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1986-1988, pp. 94-96, no. 59, repro
2004
Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective, Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, 2004, pp. 109, 229, pl. 110, repro
2006
Redefined: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2006
Bibliography
1983
Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 242, no. 1609.
Inscriptions
lower right in graphite: Bontecou 1972; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: D - 141
Wikidata ID
Q64592854