HASSEL SMITH (1915-2007)
Omega 59 Minus One
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'HS 1959' (upper left); signed, inscribed and dated ''omega 59 minus one' Hassel Smith 1959' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
67 7/8 x 47 7/8 in (172.4 x 121.6 cm)
Painted in 1959
Footnotes:
Provenance
Iannetti-Lanzone Gallery Inc., San Francisco, no. HAS0018.
Private collection, New Jersey (acquired from the above in 1988).
Acquired from the above by the present owner.

Exhibited
San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, On Looking Back, 1968.
Los Angeles, Blum Helman, Hassel Smith: Paintings from the 1950's and 1960's, 1987.
Santa Rosa, Sonoma County Museum, Hassel Smith: 55 Years of Painting, October 2002 - January 2003 (later traveled to Laguna Beach).
San Francisco, Weinstein Gallery, Hassel Smith, 2012.

Literature
P. Giloy-Hirtz, Hassel Smith: Paintings, 1937-1997, Munich, 2012, p. 117 (illustrated).