ID 1209747
Lot 198 | ROBERT MOTHERWELL (1915-1991)
Estimate value
$ 800 000 – 1 200 000
Motherwell, R.
A View No. 10
signed 'Robert Motherwell' (upper left); signed again, titled and dated twice '1958 "A View, no. 10" Robert Motherwell 1958' (on the reverse)
oil and Magna on canvas
69 x 85 in. (175.3 x 215.9 cm.)
Painted in 1958.
Provenance
The artist
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1981
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1982
Literature
E. C. Goossen, "Robert Motherwell and the Seriousness of Subject," Art International 3, January-February 1959, p. 38 (studio view illustrated).
H. F. Gaugh, "Elegy for an Exhibition," Artnews 85, March 1985, p. 75.
J. Flam, K. Rogers and T. Clifford, Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941-1991, Volume Two: Paintings on Canvas and Panel, New Haven and London, 2012, pp. 118-119, no. P183 (illustrated).
Exhibited
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1961 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings, December 1961-February 1962, n.p., no. 87.
Seattle World's Fair, Art Since 1950: American and International, April-October 1962, p. 36, no. 43.
Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, American Art Since 1950, November-December 1962, n.p., no. 43.
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Fall Group Exhibition, 1981, n.p., no. 3.
Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Seattle Art Museum; Washington D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art and New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Robert Motherwell, October 1983-February 1985, p. 75, no. 31 (illustrated; Guggenheim, no. 38).
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