Untitled, 1972

Not on View

Medium

graphite on prepared wove paper

Dimensions

image (irregular): 33.02 × 56.83 cm (13 × 22 3/8 in.)

sheet: 43.5 × 63.5 cm (17 1/8 × 25 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of William H. G. FitzGerald, Desmond FitzGerald, and B. Francis Saul II)

Accession Number

2015.19.2708

Artists / Makers

Lee Bontecou (artist) American, 1931-2022

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: Bontecou 1972; lower right verso in graphite by unknown hand: D - 141

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

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Leo Castelli Gallery
The Honorable William H.G. Fitzgerald, Mr. Desmond Fitzgerald, a

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.