Richard Diebenkorn, Berkeley #66

signed with the artist’s initials and dated “R.D. 56” lower right; further signed, titled and dated "R. DIEBENKORN 1956 BERKELEY #66" on the reverse
oil on canvas
41 5/8 x 36 5/8 in. (105.7 x 93 cm.)
Painted in 1956.

Provenance:
Paul Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles (acquired circa 1956)
Private Collection (acquired circa 1956)
Private Collection (acquired in 1976)
Robert Aichele Gallery, Menlo Park (acquired circa 1977)
Christie’s, New York, May 3, 1995, lot 5
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco; James Corocoran Gallery, Los Angeles and Acquavella Galleries, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Elizabeth and L.J. Cella, Kentfield, California (acquired in 1995)
Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York (acquired in 2007)
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 2007)
Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York (acquired in 2010)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2010

Exhibited:
San Francisco Museum of Art, Seventy-Fifth Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, March 29 - May 6, 1956, n.p. (incorrect work illustrated)
Sacramento, Crocker Art Museum, 100 Years of California Landscape, July 31, 1987 - July 31, 1988
San Francisco, John Berggruen Gallery, Richard Diebenkorn: Selected Works from 1949-1991, March 21 - April 27, 1996
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Richard Diebenkorn, October 9, 1997 - January 19, 1999, no. 17, p. 272 (illustrated, p. 45)
San Francisco, M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years 1953-1966, June 22 - September 29, 2013, pl. 39, p. 246 (illustrated, p. 118)
New York, Acquavella Galleries, California Landscapes: Richard Diebenkorn | Wayne Thiebaud, February 1 - March 16, 2018

Literature:
“California on Canvas…in Sacramento”, Sunset Magazine, January 1988, p. 34B
Jane Livingston, “Richard Diebenkorn”, American Art Review, May - June 1998, p. 148
“Opening Exhibitions: Richard Diebenkorn”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art News, September - October 1998, p. 6
Stephen Westfall, “Richard Diebenkorn: A Reasoned Sensuality”, Art in America, October 1998, p. 109
Janet Bishop, Corey Keller and Sarah Roberts, eds., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: 75 Years of Looking Forward, exh. cat., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 2010, p. 164
Jane Livingston and Andrea Liguori, eds., Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 1, New Haven, 2016, p. 54
Jane Livingston and Andrea Liguori, eds., Richard Diebenkorn: The Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 3, New Haven, 2016, no. 2099, p. 164 (illustrated)

Property of an Important Private Collector