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ROBERT RICHENBURG

American, 1917-2006

"Yellow Breakthrough", 1960

oil on canvas
signed and dated lower right "Richenburg 1960", signed and dated on the reverse
77 x 56 1/2 in. (195.6 x 143.5 cm.), Frame: 79 x 59 1/4 x 3 in. (200.7 x 150.5 x 7.6 cm.)

  • Provenance: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, New York, 1961; Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred P. Cohen, New York, 1961; Private Collection, Connecticut
  • Exhibited: Providence, Rhode Island, Rhode Island School of Design (label on the reverse); New York, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, "American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists", October - December, 1961, cat. no. 50 (illustrated).
  • Literature: Irving Hershel Sandler, "New York Letter" in "Art International" (1961), pp. 38-39 (illustrated).
  • Condition: in very good overall condition; unlined canvas; no restoration apparent under UV; some of the green areas have paint lifting; a few minor scattered losses; scattered craquelure particularly in the yellows in the center of the work

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