View full screen - View 1 of Lot 656. Summer Hour.

The Collection of Geraldine and Harold Alden

Robert Motherwell

Summer Hour

Auction Closed

November 17, 10:15 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

The Collection of Geraldine and Harold Alden

Robert Motherwell

1915 - 1991


Summer Hour

signed with the initials RM and dated 84 (upper right)

acrylic and printed paper collage on canvas mounted on board

36 by 24 in.

91.4 by 61 cm.

Executed in 1984.

M. Knoedler & Co., New York
Acquired from the above in November 1984 by the present owner
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Robert Motherwell: New Collages, 1984, no. 6, p. 6, illustrated in color
"Artist's Garden," Vanity Fair 47, no. 8, August 1984, p. 79, illustrated in color 
Lynn Seeney, "Motherwell Collages," Art/World 9, no. 1, October 1984, p. 8, illustrated
Vivien Raynor, "The Collages of Robert Motherwell," The New York Times, 12 October 1984, sec. C, p. 1, illustrated
Avis Berman, "The Triumph of Abstract Expressionism," Modern Maturity 28, no. 2, April - May 1985, p. 64, illustrated in color
Jack Flam, Katy Rogers and Tim Clifford, Robert Motherwell, Paintings and Collages:  A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941-1991:  Volume Three, Collages and Paintings on Paper and Paperboard, New Haven, 2012, cat. C695, p. 322, illustrated in color