Untitled, RICHARD DIEBENKORN (1922-1993)

RICHARD DIEBENKORN (1922-1993)
Untitled
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'RD 76' (lower left)
charcoal and ink on joined paper
22 x 16 in. (55.8 x 40.6 cm.)
Executed in 1976. This work is will be included as cat. no. 4239 in the forthcoming Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonne (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016).

PROVENANCE
M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., New York
Private collection, Westport
Anon. sale; Christie's, New York, 7-19 November 2013, lot 619
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner

EXHIBITED
New York, M. Knoedler & Company, Recent Paintings, May-June 1977.

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Lot Essay

Richard Diebenkorn beautifully plays off of the duality of reality and abstraction in his ink and charcoal studies for his famed Ocean Park painting series. As the artist asserted in 1957, "a forceful quality in art, truly representative of our modern times, will rise above the labels of abstraction and realism."