Lot Essay
“I don’t know how to paint a picture. I know how to paint the experience of making a picture.”
-Robert Motherwell
-Robert Motherwell
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FROM THE PRIVATE COLLECTION OF STUART AND CINDY TIETZE-HODOSH
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)
Untitled
Details
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)
Untitled
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'RM 74' (lower right)
acrylic and charcoal on paper
31 1/8 x 22 ½ in. (79.1 x 57.2 cm.)
Executed in 1974.
Untitled
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'RM 74' (lower right)
acrylic and charcoal on paper
31 1/8 x 22 ½ in. (79.1 x 57.2 cm.)
Executed in 1974.
Provenance
Private collection, acquired directly from the artist
Solomon & Co., New York
Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1988
Michael Dunev Gallery, San Francisco
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Solomon & Co., New York
Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1988
Michael Dunev Gallery, San Francisco
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
J. Flam, K. Rogers and T. Clifford, eds., Robert Motherwell, Paintings and Collages, A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941-1991, Volume Three: Collages and Paintings on Paper and Paperboard, New Haven and London, 2012, p. 574, no. W465 (illustrated).
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Kathryn Widing