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A Way of Life: The Collection of Barbara & Ernest Kafka
Robert Motherwell
Lyric Suite No. 9
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A Way of Life: The Collection of Barbara & Ernest Kafka
Robert Motherwell
1915 - 1991
Lyric Suite No. 9
signed with the initials RM (lower right)
ink on paper
11 by 9 in.
27.9 by 22.9 cm.
Executed in 1965.
This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Robert Motherwell’s drawings being prepared by the Dedalus Foundation.
Acquired directly from the artist by the present owner in 1965
Katy Rogers, Robert Motherwell Drawings: A Catalogue Raisonné, Volume Two: Drawings, New Haven, 2022, D381, p. 216, illustrated in color
“Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come into existence, save as the consequence to a most profound, relentless, unquenchable need.” — Robert Motherwell