Sep 19, 2024 - Sale 2678

Sale 2678 - Lot 111

Price Realized: $ 8,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
ARTHUR OKAMURA (1932-2009)
Fog in the Valley.

Oil on canvas, 1961. 1250x940 mm; 49x37 inches. Signed and dated lower right.

Provenance
Collection of Walter Beardsley.
Gift from the above to the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1961 (accession number 61.44, label).
Private corporate collection, New York.

Exhibited
"Contemporary American Paintings," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, December 13, 1961-February 4, 1962, number 92 (illustrated).
"Forty Artists Under Forty," The American Federation of the Arts, New York, September 1962-August 1963, number 23 (illustrated) (label).

Literature
Catalogue of the Collection: 1961-1966, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1966, page 10.