Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 539
w296
w296
Open Study No. 19: In Blue
with White Line
Alternative Title: Untitled (Blue with
white line)
1968
Acrylic on paper
22 x 30 in. (55.9 x 76.2 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: R Motherwell 68
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Jack Glenn Gallery, Corona del Mar,
Calif., 1973; private collection, before
1983; [Sotheby’s, New York, November
13, 2002, lot 296, illus. (not sold)]
solo exhIbItIons
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
1970 (traveling), cat. no. 27.
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco,
1973, cat. no. 22, as Untitled (blue with
white line).
comments
Our reproduction of this work is from
an early black-and-white photograph.
The ground color is blue and the linear
forms are rendered in white paint, as
per a color slide.
w297
w298
w297
w298
Untitled
Untitled
1968
Acrylic on paper
30¼ x 22 in. (76.8 x 55.9 cm)
1968
Acrylic on paper
30½ x 22 in. (77.5 x 55.9 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: RM 68
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 68
present owner
Private collection of Mike Elliott
present owner
Unknown
provenance
Unknown owner; Mike Elliott, ca. 1999
provenance
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, 1970;
Dunkelman Gallery, New York,
ca. 1973; [Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc.,
New York, March 30, 1978, lot 11,
illus.]; Dart Gallery, Inc., Chicago,
1978; [Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New
York, February 27, 1980, lot 59, illus.];
unknown owner, 1980; [Christie’s East,
New York, November 6, 1990, lot 74,
illus.]; unknown owner, 1990
comments
Our reproduction of this work comes
from the 1978 Sotheby Parke Bernet
auction catalogue. The ground color is
painted beige, and the linear forms are
rendered in white paint, as in w299.
p a i n tin gs on paper and paperbo ard
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