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Robert Motherwell

Samurai No. 13

Auction Closed

February 26, 05:59 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Robert Motherwell

1915 - 1991


Samurai No. 13

signed with the artist's initials and dated 77 (upper right)

acrylic on canvas mounted on Masonite  

48 by 36 in.

121.9 by 91.4 cm.

Executed in 1977.

André Emmerich Gallery, Inc., New York

Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy J. Younger, Houston

Sotheby's New York, 9 May 1996, lot 175 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Philadelphia (acquired from the above)

Sotheby's New York, 26 September 2019, lot 94 (consigned by the above)

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Constance W. Glenn, "The Collectors: A House Created for Art; Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy J. Younger in Houston," Architectural Digest 39, no. 4, April 1982, pp. 102, illustrated in color

Jack Flam, Katy Rogers and Tim Clifford, eds., Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941-1991, vol. II, New Haven 2012, no. P934, p. 459, illustrated in color

Naples, Florida, Philharmonic Center for the Arts, American Painting, February - March 1996

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