Lot 140
  • 140

Robert Motherwell

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Robert Motherwell
  • Beside the Sea No. 45
  • signed with the artist's initials and dated 67
  • acrylic and ink on paper
  • 30 1/8 by 21 5/8 in. 76.5 by 54.9 cm.

Provenance

Marlborough Gerson Gallery, Inc., New York
Private Collection, Florida
Sotheby's, New York, February 27, 1990, lot 67
Waddington Galleries, London
Paul Kantor, Los Angeles
By descent to the present owner from the above

Literature

H.H. Arnason, Robert Motherwell, New York, 1977, no. 135, illustrated

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The edges of the sheet are deckled and there are artist's pinholes at the top two corners. This work is hinged verso to the matte along the edges. Framed under Plexiglas.
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