Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 664
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The Blinding of the Cyclop
1987
Acrylic and oil crayon on paper
23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left: Motherwell 87
references
Nickerson 1987, p. 8.
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Untitled
comments
Like Lament for Hektor Slain (w695),
this work was sent to the Homeric
Themes exhibition at the Long Point
Gallery, Provincetown, in August 1987.
1987
Acrylic and Conté crayon on paper
23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
Drawing with Black and Red
Oval
Verso (on backing board): the
blIndInG of the cyclop
R. Motherwell 1987
artIst’s studIo number
d87-3284
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Private collection, 1990; [Christie’s,
London, June 26, 1997, lot 127, illus.
(not sold)]; [Christie’s, New York,
November 16, 2000, lot 142, illus.];
Lillian Heidenberg Fine Art, 2000;
private collection, 2002
Group exhIbItIons
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown,
Mass., 1987.
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paintings on p a p e r an d p a p e r b o a r d
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower left: Motherwell 87
artIst’s studIo number
d87-3283
present owner
Dore Ashton
provenance
Dore Ashton, 1987
1987
Acrylic and graphite on Mylar
14½ x 22¾ in. (36.8 x 57.8 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left: RM 87
artIst’s studIo number
d87-3585
present owner
Collection of the Arizona State
University Art Museum. Gift of
Friends of the ASU Art Museum
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Arizona
State University Art Museum, Tempe,
1995
solo exhIbItIons
Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, 1990.
