Lot 32
  • 32

ROBERT MOTHERWELL | The Red Garden Window

Estimate
250,000 - 350,000 USD
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Description

  • Robert Motherwell
  • The Red Garden Window
  • signed and dated 77
  • acrylic with canvas and paper collage on canvas mounted on board
  • 36 by 24 in. 91.4 by 61 cm.

Provenance

Janis C. Lee Gallery, Houston
M. Knoedler & Co., New York
Private Collection, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner 

Exhibited

Houston, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Robert Motherwell: Collages, Drawings, Paintings, March - April 1978

Literature

Moser, Charlotte “Motherwell Show Reveals New Paint, Color Handling.” Houston Chronicle, March 25, 1978, sec. 3, p. 9, illustrated upside down
Jack Flam, Katy Rogers and Tim Clifford, Eds., Robert Motherwell, A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941-1991, Volume 3: Collages and Paintings on Paper and Paperboard, New Haven 2012, cat. no. C608, p. 287, illustrated in color

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. The collage elements are stable and well intact. The edges of several of the collage elements are deckled due to the artist's choice of medium. Under close inspection, there are a few minor areas of adhesive residue visible due to the artist's working method. There is some minor scattered wear to the perimeter and four corners with a few areas of very minor pigment loss noted. There is a water accretion to the upper center right of the composition. Framed.
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Catalogue Note

"Regardless of the medium, whether it is in Eliot or Picasso or a TV thirty-second advertisement, I think collage is the twentieth century's greatest creative innovation." Robert Motherwell