The Blue Wall

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ROBERT MOTHERWELL (1915-1991)
The Blue Wall
signed with the artist’s initials and dated ‘RM 77’ (lower right)
acrylic, charcoal and graphite on paper
11 x 13 3⁄4 in. (27.9 x 34.9 cm.)
Executed in 1977.

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Dedalus Foundation, New York, 1991
Acquired from the above by the late owners, 1996

Literature

J. Flam, K. Rogers and T. Clifford, Robert Motherwell, Paintings and Collages, A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941-1991, Volume Three: Collages and Paintings on Paper and Paperboard, New Haven and London, 2012, pp. 592-593, no. W525 (illustrated).

Exhibited

New York, William Ehrlich Gallery, Robert Motherwell: The Remaining Miniatures from the Original Exhibit, June-July 1979.
Provincetown, Long Point Gallery, Blue, July-August 1983.
New York, PaceWildenstein and New York, Robert Miller Gallery, 50/50: Fifty Artists from Fifty Years of Skowhegan, April 1996.

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Lot Essay

When Emily Mason was growing up, she would accompany her mother, the artist Alice Trumbull Mason, to events at the Eighth Street Club, where fellow attendees included Robert Motherwell as well as Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Franz Kline and Helen Frankenthaler. The present work by Motherwell hung in Mason and Kahn's apartment as well as in Mason's New York City studio as part of what she called her "wall of friends."

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