Diebenkorn's Ocean Park No. 117 sells for $6,578,500

At Christie's May 14 Evening Sale of Post-War and Contemporary Art, Richard Diebenkorns Ocean Park No. 117, 1979, a consummate work for the artist, which luminously illustrates the best qualities of his most celebrated series of paintings, achieved $6,578,500, just shy of the artists auction record of $6.76 million. Through his use of bright and cool blues and yellows, the artist communicates the ephemeral quality of nature, capturing the sensation and radiance of the coastal environment in which this work was created.
New York, May 2009

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