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Open Study No. 6
Alternative Title: Study for “Open Series”
No. 17
1968
Acrylic and charcoal on paper
22 x 30½ in. (55.9 x 77.5 cm)
Group exhIbItIons
American Federation of Arts, New
York, 1970 (circulating), cat. no. 48,
illus. p. 29 (upside down), as Study for
“Open Series” No. 17.
Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, May 1973.
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 68
references
Mattison et al. 2009, color illus. p. 21.
Recto, lower right: 6
comments
This work was used as a model for
Open No. 35: In Raw Umber on Sized
Canvas (p429).
artIst’s studIo number
d68-410; p68-410
present owner
Collection Bernard Jacobson Gallery,
London
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Bernard
Jacobson Gallery, London, 2008
solo exhIbItIons
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, 1979,
cat. no. 60, illus. n.p. (in exhibition).
Marlborough Gallery, New York, 2002.
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London,
October 2008.
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Open Study No. 8
Open Study No. 8A: In Blue
with Black Lines
1968
Acrylic and charcoal on paper
22⅛ x 30⅝ in. (56.2 x 77.8 cm)
Alternative Title: Untitled (Charcoal Line)
1968
Acrylic and charcoal on paper
22⅛ x 30⅝ in. (56.2 x 77.8 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left: RM 68
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left: RM 68
Recto, lower right: 8
artIst’s studIo number
d68-1500
present owner
The Museum of Modern Art, New
York. The Judith Rothschild
Foundation Contemporary Drawings
Collection, gift
artIst’s studIo number
d68-421
present owner
The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The Judith Rothschild Foundation
Contemporary Drawings Collection, gift
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Judith
Rothschild Foundation, 2003; Museum
of Modern Art, New York, 2008
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Judith
Rothschild Foundation, 2003; Museum
of Modern Art, New York, 2008
solo exhIbItIons
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
1970 (traveling), cat. no. 24.
solo exhIbItIons
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
1970 (traveling), cat. no. 25.
Marlborough Gallery, New York, 2002.
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco,
1973, cat. no. [23 or 24], as Untitled
(charcoal line).
references
Rattemeyer 2009, illus. p. 200.
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