Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 561
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comments
Motherwell used this work as the model
for the early state of a large-scale painting, Hoppla, wir leben! (p620).
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Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
1971
Acrylic and graphite on canvas paper
11¾ x 15½ in. (29.8 x 39.4 cm)
Alternative Title: {Untitled (Orange and
Tan Open)}
1971
Acrylic, ink, and graphite on canvas
paper
12 x 16 in. (30.5 x 40.6 cm)
Alternative Title: {Open}
1971
Acrylic and ink on canvas paper
12 x 15⅞ in. (30.5 x 40.3 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower left: Motherwell 71
artIst’s studIo number
d71-277
Ca. 1971
Acrylic and graphite on paper
11½ x 14½ in. (29.2 x 36.8 cm)
artIst’s studIo number
p71-467
present owner
Private collection, Palermo, Italy
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: RM
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, Palermo, Italy, 2006
artIst’s studIo number
d70-229
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: Motherwell 71
artIst’s studIo number
p71-466
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
solo exhIbItIons
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London,
October 2008.
references
Mattison et al. 2009, color illus. p. 116.
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
solo exhIbItIons
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London,
October 2008, as Untitled (Orange and
Tan Open).
references
Mattison et al. 2009, color illus. p. 116,
as Untitled (Orange and Tan Open).
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InscrIptIons
Recto, upper center: Motherwell 71
solo exhIbItIons
Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C.,
1972.
Open Study
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles,
2005, cat. no. 12, color illus. p. 14, as
Open.
Galleria d’Arte il Gabbiano, Rome,
2006, cat. no. 3, color illus. p. 13, as
Open.
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