LOT DETAILS
Materials:
oil, charcoal and graphite on canvas
Size Notes:
36 x 48
Description:
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Markings:
signed with the initialsRMand dated 56(lower left); signed R. Motherwell titled and dated1956(on the reverse)
Exhibited:
Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum,Connecticut Painters 7 + 7 + 7, 1983, no. 24 (in earlier state); Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Seattle Art Museum; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,Robert Motherwell, 1983-1985, no. 25, p. 69, illustrated in color (in earlier state)
Literature:
Vivien Raynor, 'Artists Champion Other Artists,' The New York Times, 30 January 1983, sec. 23, p. 18; Gabrielle Drudi, Note Romane a Robert Motherwell, Milan, 1984, p. 106, illustrated (in earlier state); Gabrielle Drudi, Robert Motherwell. Notes Romaines, Paris, 1988, p. 112, illustrated (in earlier state); Marcelin Pleynet, Robert Motherwell, Paris, 1989, p. 94, illustrated in color; Jack Flam, Katy Rogers and Tim Clifford, Robert Motherwell, Paintings and Collages: ACatalogue Raisonn, 1941-1991: Volume Two: Paintings on Canvas and Panel, New Haven and London, 2012, no. P160, pp. 98-99, illustrated in color
Provenance:
M. Knoedler & Co., New York; Acquired from the above in December 1987 by the present owner