Number 4

Details

Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967)
Number 4
signed and dated 'REINHARDT 46' (lower left); signed and dated again 'REINHARDT 1946' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas in artist's frame
painting: 50 x 20 in. (127 x 50.8 cm.)
overall: 51 x 21 in. (129.5 x 53.3 cm) (including artist's frame)
Painted in 1946.

Provenance

Betty Parsons Gallery, New York
Marlborough Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Exhibited

New York, Museum of Modern Art and Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ad Reinhardt, May 1991-January 1992, p. 39 (illustrated in color).
New York, Marlborough Gallery, Ad Reinhardt: Early Works, February-March 1999, p. 15, no. 21 (illustrated in color).
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Post-War Art, Spring 2001.

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Lot Essay

"There is no such thing as a good painting about nothing." -Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko, 1947

"There is no such thing as a good painting about something." -Ad Reinhardt, 1947

Number 4

Lot Essay

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