Lot 177
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Robert Motherwell

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Robert Motherwell
  • In Green, with Ultramarine and Ochre
  • signed
  • acrylic and paper collage on paper
  • 31 1/4 by 22 1/4 in. 79.4 by 56.5 cm.
  • Executed in 1967.

Provenance

Dedalus Foundation, New York
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2013

Exhibited

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Robert Motherwell: Collages, October - November 1968
Richmond, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Judge the Jury, March - April 1969
London, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Robert Motherwell: Collage, June - August 2013, p. 37, illustrated in color

Literature

Jack Flam, Katy Rogers and Tim Clifford, Eds., Robert Motherwell: Paintings and Collages, A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941-1991Volume III, New Haven 2012, cat. no. C208, pp. 126-127, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The edges of the sheet are deckled and there are artist's pinholes in the upper right and left corners and in the blue collaged element. The colors are bright, fresh and clean. An abrasion to the right side of the green painted area and along the upper right side edge has led to some pinpoint scattered losses. The collaged elements are intact and the white collaged element has been irregularly torn and glued down by the artist. The sheet is hinged verso to the mat intermittently along the edges. Framed under glass.
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