ROBERT MOTHERWELL (1915-1991)

Lot 182
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Starting price
$ 800 000
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Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 949701
Lot 182 | ROBERT MOTHERWELL (1915-1991)
Estimate value
$ 800 000 – 1 200 000
ROBERT MOTHERWELL (1915-1991)

Cape Cod

incised with the artist's initials and date 'RM Sept 71' (upper right); signed, titled and dated again 'R. Motherwell "Cape Cod" 1971' (on the reverse)

acrylic, charcoal and graphite on canvas

40 x 60 in. (101.6 x 152.4 cm.)

Painted in 1971.





Provenance

Private collection, Palm Beach, 1972

Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 10 November 2005, lot 225

Private collection, New York, 2005

Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London

Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York

Glen and Lynn Tobias, New York, 2007

Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2015



Literature

Robert Motherwell, Beside The Sea, exh. cat., Provincetown Art Association and Museum, July-September 2012, pp. 36-38 (illustrated).

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. 328, no. P638 (illustrated).



Exhibited

Detroit, Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Robert Motherwell: Paintings and Collages, 1972-1973, n.p., no. 4.

New York, Andrea Rosen Gallery, Robert Motherwell: Opens, May-June 2015.
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