Contemporary Art
Contemporary Art
Robert Motherwell
Madrid No. 2
Lot Closed
October 4, 06:35 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Robert Motherwell
1915 - 1991
Madrid 2
signed with the artist's initials and dated indistinctly; signed and dated Madrid Spain, 1958 on a backing board adhered to the reverse
crayon and ink on paper
Sheet: 15 by 15 in. (38.1 by 38.1 cm.)
Framed: 23½ by 23¼ in. (59.6 by 59 cm.)
This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Robert Motherwell’s drawings currently being prepared by the Dedalus Foundation.
Mrs. Henry Epstein
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 4 May 1967, Lot 86
Private Collection
Sotheby's, Parke-Bernet, Los Angeles, 15 May 1972, Lot 80
Arthur A. Cohen and Elaine Lustig Cohen
Charles Conkright, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2003
Arnason, H. H., et al. Robert Motherwell. 1st ed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1977, p. 48, ill. p. 48 (pl. 24), referred to in text and in ill. as Madrid Drawing No. 2.
Arnason, H. H., et al. Robert Motherwell. 2nd ed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1982, pp. 12, 48, ill. p. 48 (pl. 38), as Madrid Drawing No. 2.
Rosand, David. “‘My I’: Toward an Iconography of the Self.” In Robert Motherwell on Paper: Drawings, Prints, Collages (exhibition catalogue). New York: Harry N. Abrams, in association with the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, 1997, ill. p. 29 (fig. 8).