This painting was exhibited at the Allentown Art Museum on loan from the estate of past Director of the NC Museum of Art William R. Valentiner. Thereafter, it descended to the children of Harry Bertoia.
Provenance: Atlanta Art Gallery, Atlanta Georgia; Collection of Louise Kranzberg, Atlanta, Georgia, purchased from the above, May 23, 1994; Private collection, Ohio.
This print is in the collections of the Smitsonian American Art Museum, Yale University Art Gallery, Brooklyn Museum, Vicgtoria & Albert Museum and the British Museum
Initialed CP in the lower left. Pickardt begin experimeting with free form paintings and drawings in the 1950s and they were first exhibited at the Jaques Seligmann Galleries in New York in 1954.
