Untitled #54

Artist Lee Bontecou (American, 1931 - 2022)

Date1982

MediumCasein on paper

DimensionsOverall: 11 x 13 1/2 inches (27.9 x 34.3 cm), frame: 19 3/8 x 21 1/2 x 1 1/8 inches (49.2 x 54.6 x 2.9 cm)

Credit LineBequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer

Object number2019.36

Collections

ClassificationsPainting

Object NamePainting

DepartmentPermanent Collection

CultureNorth American

NationalityAmerican

On View

Not on view

Century

Twentieth

More Information

Signedbottom right: Bontecou 1982

Inscribedverso: Untitled #54 1982

Exhibition HistoryFebruary Pop-Up: Postwar Works on Paper from the Palmer Bequest, Palmer Museum of Art, February 28, 2020 Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective, UCLA Hammer Museum, October 5, 2003–January 11, 2004; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, February 14–May 30, 2004; Museum of Modern Art, New York, July 28–September 27, 2004ProvenanceThe artist Collection of James and Barbara Palmer, acquired in 2005 from Knoedler & Company, New York Palmer Museum of Art, bequest of James R. and Barbara R. Palmer, 2019Published ReferencesJoyce Henri Robinson, ed., A Gift from the Heart: American Art from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013), 174 (ill., color). Elizabeth A. T. Smith et al., Lee Bontecou: A Retrospective (Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, with the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2003), 113 (pl. 114), 230 (pl. 114)