Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 543
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artist’s studio number
d69-604
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[ Open Study (In Blue with
Pencil Lines)]
[ Gesture Series (A)]
[ Gesture Series (B)]
1969
Acrylic on paper
30½ x 22½ in. (77.5 x 57.2 cm)
1969
Acrylic on paper
30½ x 22¾ in. (77.5 x 57.8 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 69
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 69
artist’s studio number
d69-602
artist’s studio number
d69-603
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present owner
Dedalus Foundation
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
1969
Acrylic on paper
30½ x 23 in. (77.5 x 58.4 cm)
comments
The composition of this work anticipates the 1971 lithograph Samurai
(Engberg and Banach 2003, no. 104),
and the 1974 Samurai series of paintings (p775–p780).
solo exhibitions
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, 1979,
cat. no. 63, illus. n.p. (in exhibition).
1969
Acrylic, ink, and graphite on paper
23 x 31½ in. (58.4 x 80 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 69
artist’s studio number
d69-608
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
comments
The diagonally sloping vertical line at
the left side of the Open form in this
work relates it to a large-scale contemporaneous painting, Open No. 97: The
Spanish House (p486), which was the
first Open painting on canvas to introduce this form.
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[ Gesture Series (C)]
1969
Acrylic on paper
30¾ x 23 in. (78.1 x 58.4 cm)
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
[ Gesture Series (D)]
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 69
artist’s studio number
d69-605
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 69
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