California Cool: Art of the West Coast 
26 September 2024
California Cool: Art of the West Coast 
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Wallace Berman 1926–1976

Silence Series #11

1965-68
verifax collage on board in artist's frame 25 h × 27 w × 2 d in (63 × 69 × 5 cm)
estimate: $70,000–90,000
result: $94,500
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Signed to lower right ‘W. Berman’.
provenance: The Artist | Betty Asher, Beverly Hills | Newspace, Los Angeles | Acquired from the previous in 1988, Private Collection, Los Angeles
exhibited: Wallace Berman: Verifax Collages, 17 September - 17 November 1968, Jewish Museum, New York | Wallace Berman, 30 April - 2 June 1968, Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Wallace Berman: Retrospective, 24 October - 26 November 1978, Otis Art Institute Gallery, Los Angeles sponsored by the Fellows of Contemporary Art (traveling exhibition)
literature: Wallace Berman: Retrospective, Otis Art Institute Gallery sponsored by the Fellows of Contemporary Art exhibition catalog, nos. 103-104 illustrate similar works

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Wallace proceeded with his life on the primary assumption that all experiences were justifiable grounds for art; what was finally important was adventure and not achievement.

Merril Greene for Artforum

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