Lot No. 324 -


Robert Motherwell


Robert Motherwell - Contemporary Art I

(Aberdeen, USA, 1915 – 1991 Provincetown)
Drunk with turpentine no. 25, 1979, signed and inscribed 7 March 79-C, on the reverse inscribed INV #D79–2222, oil on paperboard, 88.9 x 45.7 cm, framed

Provenance:
Marisa Del Re Gallery, New York (acquired from the above by the present owner in 1989)
Private Collection, USA

Exhibited:
Storrs, William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, 1979, cat. no. 99, with ill. p. 146 (as Untitled)
New York, Marisa del Re Gallery, 8 February – 4 March 1989, exh. cat.

Literature:
J. D. Flam, K. Rogers, T. Clifford, Robert Motherwell. Paintings and Collages: A catalogue raisonné 1941–1991, New Haven 2012, p. 608, no. W560 with ill.
Qin, Zhao-Kai, The Influence of Oriental Art and Ideas on Robert Motherwell’s Work: An Investigation of Certain Affinities between His Work and Chinese and Japanese Calligraphy and Ink Painting (includes artist’s statements). M.A. thesis, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1996, pp. 51, 56, ill. on p. 105 (fig. 47), referred to in text and in ill. as Untitled

Each brushstroke is a decision.
Robert Motherwell

Specialist: Alessandro Rizzi Alessandro Rizzi
+39-02-303 52 41

alessandro.rizzi@dorotheum.it

27.11.2019 - 18:00

Realized price: **
EUR 57,633.-
Estimate:
EUR 50,000.- to EUR 70,000.-

Robert Motherwell


(Aberdeen, USA, 1915 – 1991 Provincetown)
Drunk with turpentine no. 25, 1979, signed and inscribed 7 March 79-C, on the reverse inscribed INV #D79–2222, oil on paperboard, 88.9 x 45.7 cm, framed

Provenance:
Marisa Del Re Gallery, New York (acquired from the above by the present owner in 1989)
Private Collection, USA

Exhibited:
Storrs, William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, 1979, cat. no. 99, with ill. p. 146 (as Untitled)
New York, Marisa del Re Gallery, 8 February – 4 March 1989, exh. cat.

Literature:
J. D. Flam, K. Rogers, T. Clifford, Robert Motherwell. Paintings and Collages: A catalogue raisonné 1941–1991, New Haven 2012, p. 608, no. W560 with ill.
Qin, Zhao-Kai, The Influence of Oriental Art and Ideas on Robert Motherwell’s Work: An Investigation of Certain Affinities between His Work and Chinese and Japanese Calligraphy and Ink Painting (includes artist’s statements). M.A. thesis, Virginia Commonwealth University, 1996, pp. 51, 56, ill. on p. 105 (fig. 47), referred to in text and in ill. as Untitled

Each brushstroke is a decision.
Robert Motherwell

Specialist: Alessandro Rizzi Alessandro Rizzi
+39-02-303 52 41

alessandro.rizzi@dorotheum.it


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Auction: Contemporary Art I
Auction type: Saleroom auction
Date: 27.11.2019 - 18:00
Location: Vienna | Palais Dorotheum
Exhibition: 16.11. - 27.11.2019


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