Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 594
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Black Gesture
Black Gesture
Black Gesture
Black Gesture
1975
Acrylic on paper
26 x 20½ in. (66 x 52.1 cm), irreg.
1975
Acrylic on paper
26 x 20½ in. (66 x 52.1 cm), irreg.
1975
Acrylic on paper
22½ x 20 in. (57.2 x 50.8 cm), irreg.
1975
Acrylic on paper
20 x 22¼ in. (50.8 x 56.5 cm), irreg.
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower left: Motherwell 75 5
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: Motherwell 75
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: Motherwell 75
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: Motherwell 75
artIst’s studIo number
d75-305
artIst’s studIo number
d75-302
artIst’s studIo number
d75-303
artIst’s studIo number
d75-306
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
present owner
Unknown
present owner
Private collection
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
provenance
Private collection, 1978; unknown
owner
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2009
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
references
Towle 1977, cover color illus.
comments
Motherwell numbered this work in
pencil on the recto in the same way that
he numbered the works in his contemporaneous Gesture Paper Painting
series, but he did not make this work
part of that series (see the Comments
for w469).
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comments
Our reproduction comes from an early
color slide of this work.
paintings on p a p e r an d p a p e r b o a r d
