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 Louis, Morris (1912 - 1962)
USA

Beta Tau, 1961

Acrylic on canvas ;
259 x 487.5 cm
Minimalism

UID 102-345



Biography

Born Morris Louis Bernstein, in Baltimore, USA. In 1939 dropped use of surname. Studied at the Baltimore Institute of Fine and Applied Arts 1929-33. His work forms a bridge between Abstract Expressionism and Post-Painterly Abstraction. In 1936 moved to New York, and in 1947 to Washington, DC where he taught at a workshop and meet Kenneth Nolaud. On a visit to New York with Kenneth Noland in 1953 was taken to Helen Frankenthaler's studio and was influenced by her poured stain technique. First one-person exhibition at the Workshop Art Center Gallery, Washington D.C., in 1953: Kootz Gallery, New York (with Kenneth Noland). In 1960: ICA, London; Galleria del'Ariete, Milan. In 1958 he began his first major series of large veil pictures. Extensive output from then on, using colours with increasing purity and directness; his last pictures have regular parallel stripes of colour. Died in Washington.



Exhibitions

Grande Escala - Colecção Berardo
Centro das Artes Casa das Mudas, Calheta, Madeira, Portugal
09-10-2004 ~ 18-03-2005

Collection Berardo, Oeuvres Choisies du 20e Siècle
Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon, France
05-10-2001 ~ 14-01-2002

The Berardo Collection
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal
17-05-1997 ~ 31-08-1997

Face - a - Face
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal
02-10-2001 ~ 30-04-2001

Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal
22-10-2002 ~ 28-02-2003

Durante o Fim - Rui Chafes
Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal
15-10-2000 ~ 14-01-2001

Sin Título (el arte del siglo XX en la Colección Berardo)
Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Spain
29-06-2006 ~ 26-11-2006

Berardo Museum Opening
Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal
25-06-2007 ~ 09-09-2007

Paradise Motel
Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal
13-11-2010 ~ 26-12-2011


Bibliography

Christie's, Contemporary Art, 1993
Published by Christie's

Collection Berardo, Oeuvres Choisies du 20e Siècle, 2001
Published by Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon
ISBN 2711843319

Grande Escala - The Berardo Collection, 2004
Published by Centro das Artes - Casa das Mudas
ISBN 972890200X

Interior Design

Morris Louis, 1970

Morris Louis: The Complete Paintings, A Catalogue Raisonné, 1985

Sin Título (el arte del siglo XX en la Colección Berardo), 2006
Published by Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza
ISBN 8495892529

Skurka, New York Times Magazine, New York, 24 November, 1974, 1974
Published by Skurka, New York Times Magazine

Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo, 2002
Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo
ISBN 972974288X

The Berardo Collection – Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 1996
Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo
ISBN 9729739105







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