Inv. n°: CL106

Bending Blue

Signed, titled, and variously inscribed on the reverse; signed and dated 17 Jan 77 on the stretcher. Abstract Expressionism.

h. 274.3 x w. 213.4 cm

1977

Magna on canvas

Provenance

  • Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York
  • Corporate Collection of Totes International, Cincinnati
  • Private Collection, USA
  • Kasmin, New York, March-May 2009
  • Private Collection, Florida
  • Acquired at Sotheby’s, Private Sale, New York, 2018

Publications

  • Cincinnati Magazine, Cincinnati, October 1991, p. 70-71, illustrated
  • "Art Miami 2017", My Virtual Garden, 10th December 2017, [On-line]. Available at: http://myvirtualgarden2.blogspot.com/2017/12/art-miami-2017.html illustrated
  • "Fields of Colour, 13 January – 17 February 2018", Yares Art, [On-line]. Available at: https://www.artsy.net/show/yares-art-fields-of-colo
  • J. Hooper, "American Women in Florence", The Wall Street Journal, 22nd January 2021
  • "Restorations Conversations: Women Artists and the Abstract Revolution", The Florentine You Tube, 21st April 2021, [On-line]. Available at: https://youtu.be/tgdWylCx1Uk, 45:56
  • H. Farrell, "In the Gallery at Home with Christian and Florence Levett", The Florentine, May 2021, no. 278, p. 21
  • H. Farrell & L. Falcone, "At Home with Christian and Florence Levett: Collecting Women's Abstract Expressionism", The Florentine.net, 5th May 2021, [On-line]. Available at: https://www.theflorentine.net/2021/05/05/at-home-gallery-christian-florence-levett/
  • "American Expressed", Apollo International Art Magazine, October 2021, pp. 61 & 66
  • R. Leung, "From 4th-Century Greek Vases to Female Abstract Expressionism", Larry's List, 2022, [On-line]. Available at: https://www.larryslist.com/artmarket/the-talks/from-4th-century-greek-vases-to-female-abstract-expressionism/
  • Ellen G. Landau & Joan M. Marter, Abstract Expressionists: The Women, London, 2023, pp. 105-107 (detail), p. 240
  • Mary Gabriel, Karen Kurczynski, Jeremy Lewison, Daniel Zamani, Burst ! Abstract Painting After 1945, Oslo, 2023, p. 95
  • Y. Shimbata & H. Shimamoto (ed.), Abstraction: The Genesis and Evolution of Abstract Painting Cézanne, Fauvism, Cubism and on to Today, Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation, Tokyo, June 2023, p. 255, n°137 (exh. cat.)

Exhibitions

  • Cincinnati Collects. The Corporate View, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA, 13th September 1991 — 2nd November 1991
  • Art Miami 2017, Opera Gallery, Miami, USA
  • Fields of Color, Yares Art, New York, USA, 13th January 2018 — 17th February 2018
  • The Shape of Freedom: International Abstraction after 1945, Museum Barberini, Postdam, Germany, 4th June 2022 — 24th September 2022
  • Ways of Freedom. Pollock. Rothko. Mitchell., Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria, 15th October 2022 — 22nd January 2023
  • The Shape of Freedom: International Abstraction after 1945, Munch Museet, Oslo, Norway, 22nd February 2023 — 21st May 2023
  • Forthcoming: The Dawn and Development of Abstraction, Artizon Museum, Tokyo, Japan, 3rd June 2023 — 20th August 2023

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