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ROBERT MOTHERWELL | Guillotine No. 2
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 USD
bidding is closed
Description
- Robert Motherwell
- Guillotine No. 2
- signed with the artist's initials and dated 79; signed with the artist's initials, titled and dated 80 on the reverse
- acrylic and charcoal on canvas
- 77 3/4 by 38 in. 197.5 by 96.5 cm.
- Executed in 1979-1980.
Provenance
Dedalus Foundation, New York
Achim Moeller Fine Arts, New York (acquired from the above in 2001)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2002
Achim Moeller Fine Arts, New York (acquired from the above in 2001)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2002
Literature
Jack Flam, Katy Rogers and Tim Clifford, Eds., Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1994-1991, Volume Two: Paintings on Canvas and Panel, New Haven 2012, cat. no. P996, p. 484, illustrated in color
Catalogue Note
"The 'pure' red of which certain abstractionists speak does not exist. Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters' caps and a thousand other concrete phenomena. Otherwise we would have no feeling toward red and its relations."
Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell