Provenance

Mrs. Stuart Hunter

American

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Curving shapes in harvest and lemon yellow float against a background streaked with smoke and charcoal gray in this abstract, horizontal painting. Brushstrokes are visible throughout. Many of the yellow forms are clustered in the center of the composition, and overlaid with black outlines that together make a rough heart shape. The heart form lies on its side with the point of the heart to our right. A few more yellow forms float around this area, including a bottle-shaped form to our left. Black lines are overlaid over some of the forms but not all. One mint-green dot is connected to a yellow, planchet-like shape by a line, near the lower left corner of the painting. The artist signed and dated the painting near the lower right corner, “Louis 48.”
Morris Louis, Sub-Marine, 1948, oil on canvas, Purchased as the Gift of Howard and Roberta Ahmanson, 2017.115.1

Sub-Marine

Morris Louis · 1948 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2017.115.1