Lot 211
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Robert Motherwell

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Description

  • Robert Motherwell
  • Suchard on Orange #1
  • acrylic, printed paper collage and pencil on board
  • 41 by 32 1/8 in. 104.2 by 83.5 cm.
  • Executed in 1971.

Provenance

Galerie Lawrence Rubin AG, Zürich (acquired directly from the artist)
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto
Christie's, New York, November 14, 2001, Lot 155
Acquired by the present owner from the above sale

Exhibited

Princeton University Art Museum, Robert Motherwell: Recent Works, January - February 1973
Toronto, David Mirvish Gallery, Robert Motherwell, March - April 1973
Wichita, Kansas, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Robert Motherwell, Recent Works, October - November 1979

Literature

Robert C. Morgan, Between Modernism and Conceptual Art - A Critical Response, London, 1997

Catalogue Note

"The aesthetic is the sine qua non for art: if a work is not aesthetic, it is not art by definition."
-- Robert Motherwell