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Open No. 153: In Scarlet with White Line
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20TH CENTURY & CONTEMPORARY ART EVENING SALE
ARTIST
Robert Motherwell
Size
86 1/2 x 140 1/4 in. (219.7 x 356.2 cm.)
Description
PROPERTY FROM A PROMINENT PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION
Open No. 153: In Scarlet with White Line
Open No. 153: In Scarlet with White Line
Medium
acrylic on canvas
Signature
Painted in 1970.
Provenance
Dedalus Foundation, New York (acquired in 1991)
Acquired from the above via Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York by the present owner
Literature
Robert S. Mattison, et. al., Robert Motherwell: Open, London, 2009, p. 182 (illustrated, pp. 100-101)
Jack Flam, Katy Rogers and Tim Clifford, eds., Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941-1991, vol. II, New Haven, 2012, no. P556, p. 296 (illustrated)
Exhibited
London, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Robert Motherwell: Five Great Opens, October 15 - November 22, 2008
New York, Paul Kasmin Gallery, The New York School, 1969: Henry Geldzahler at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 13 - March 14, 2015
New York, Mnuchin Gallery, Reds, April 27 - June 9, 2018, pp. 11, 94 (illustrated, pp. 46-47)