Milton Resnick - Contemporary Art Day Sale New York Friday, May 11, 2012 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Howard Wise Gallery, New York
    Private Collection, 1964
    The Helen W. and Robert M. Benjamin Collection
    Private collection, Nashville

  • Exhibited

    New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, The Helen W. and Robert M. Benjamin Collection, 1967
    New York, Robert Miller Gallery, Milton Resnick Five Years: 1959 - 1963, April 4 - May 4, 2002

  • Literature

    Yale University Art Gallery, The Helen W. and Robert M. Benjamin Collection, New Haven, 1967, cat no. 149 (illustrated)

  • Catalogue Essay

    Resnick's agitated brush indicates both his radicalism and his conservatism in relation to his AbEx peers — conservative because a sensuality and an awareness of the nuance of painterliness ground him within European tradition…. His work is fierce, poetic, and full of energy. In fact, he's one of those who's turned energy into an ethical human value.

    - D. Cohen, “Milton Resnick Was an AbEx Pioneer”, The New York Sun, May 29, 2008

165A

Bending to Moon Bottom

1963
oil on canvas
68 1/4 x 50 1/2 in. (173.4 x 128.3 cm)
Signed, titled, and dated "M. Resnick, 1963, Bending to Moon Bottom" on the reverse.

Estimate
$100,000 - 150,000 

Sold for $86,500

Contemporary Art Day Sale

Contemporary Art Day
11 May 2012
New York