Post War & Contemporary Art 
29 January 2025
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Post War & Contemporary Art 
Howard Mehring, Magenta Double - Image 1 of 3
Howard Mehring, Magenta Double - Image 2 of 3
Howard Mehring, Magenta Double - Image 3 of 3
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Howard Mehring 1931–1978

Magenta Double

1964
oil on collaged canvas 72¼ h × 72 w in (184 × 183 cm)
estimate: $25,000–35,000
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Titled and dated to verso ‘Magenta Double May 1964’.
provenance: A.M. Sachs Gallery, New York | Collection of Gilbert and Sandra Oken | Doyle, New York, Important Paintings, 20 May 2020, Lot 39 | Private Collection
exhibited: Washington Color Painters, 25 June - 5 September 1965, The Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C. (traveling exhibition)

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[Mehring’s] sureness, from the beginning, is extraordinary. It rescues him from the Burkean ‘terror.’ His sublime is the calmest – the most beautiful of any American painter’s.

Carter Radcliff on Howard Mehring, Art International

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