Lot 155
  • 155

Robert Motherwell

Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
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Description

  • Robert Motherwell
  • Country Life
  • signed with the artist's initials, dated 67 and inscribed Provincetown
  • acrylic, graphite and paper collage on paper
  • 30 1/2 by 22 1/4 in. 77.5 by 56.5 cm.

Provenance

The Dedalus Foundation
Private Collection, Alabama
Acquired by the present owner from the above

Literature

Pierre Volboudt, "Perspectives de Robert Motherwell," XXe Siècle XXXV, no. 40, June 1973, p. 84

Condition

This work is in very good condition overall. All four edges of the sheet are deckled, and there are artist’s pinholes in the upper two corners. The collage elements are stable and secure. The sheet is hinged verso to the matte intermittently along the edges. Framed under Plexiglas.
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Catalogue Note

"I have tried to make a language that is not a meaningless symbol, a pretend language, but at the same time cannot be as specific as a symbol for, say, a hurricane, or a house, or whatever... Sometimes I think it is all subjective, in the sense of intensity... but it is so real to me that it feels 'real'." - Robert Motherwell