Robert Motherwell
Open No. 126: In Beige with Blue
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March 4, 04:55 PM GMT
Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Robert Motherwell
1915 - 1991
Open No. 126: in Beige with Blue
signed, titled, dated twice 1970 and inscribed Merry Xmas to Tatiana & Alex Liberman from their friend Bob Motherwell (on the stretcher)
acrylic and charcoal on canvas
24 by 30 in.
61 by 76.2 cm.
Executed in 1970.
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Liberman, New York (gift of the artist)
High Museum of Art, Atlanta (gift of the above in 1991)
Sotheby's New York, 14 November 2012, lot 138
Acquired from the above by the present owner
New York, Andrea Rosen Gallery, Robert Motherwell: Opens, May – June, 2015
Paris, Galerie Templon, Robert Motherwell: Open Series, May – July, 2018
Hong Kong, Pearl Lam Galleries, Arriving at Reality: Robert Motherwell's "Open Paintings" and Related Collages, January – March, 2019
London, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Robert Motherwell: Paintings, June – August, 2023
Jack Flam, Katy Rogers and Tim Clifford, eds., Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941-1991, vol. II, New Haven 2012, no. P533, p. 287, illustrated in color