Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 523
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to the wall. Their numbers within the
Open series would seem to place them
with works done the following year, but
this is due to the fact that they were not
numbered until the winter of 1968–69,
when numbers were first given to works
in the Open series.
See the Comments for Open No. 1:
In Yellow Ochre (p397).
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Open No. 31B: In Raw Sienna
Alternative Title: Open No. 31 (b)
blotting paper, raw sienna
1967
Acrylic and charcoal on paper
16¼ x 37½ in. (41.3 x 95.3 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 67
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references
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery exh. cat.
1969, illus. n.p., as ‘Open’ No. 31 (b)
blotting paper, raw sienna; Courthion
1970, illus. p. 9.
comments
Regarding the date and the numbering
of this work in the Open series, see the
Comments for Open No. 31A: In Burnt
Sienna (w251).
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[ Open]
1967
Acrylic and charcoal on paper
24 x 18 in. (61 x 45.7 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM
artist’s studio number
p??-483
artist’s studio number
d67-1501
present owner
Unknown
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
The artist
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
comments
This work is seen pinned to a wall in
photographs of Motherwell’s studio
taken by Ugo Mulas in November 1967
(see fig. 112 in volume 1). The white
paint over the horizontal charcoal line
was added at an unknown later date.
Notes on the artist’s studio card show
that the work was still in Motherwell’s
possession in 1987, but we do not know
what happened to it thereafter.
Our reproduction of this work comes
from a Polaroid photograph.
solo exhibitions
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, 1979,
cat. no. 50, illus. n.p. (in exhibition).
group exhibitions
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York, 1969, cat. no. 261, illus. p. 236.
Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-deVence, France, 1970.
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