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Open No. 25: In Blue with Variations
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20TH CENTURY & CONTEMPORARY ART EVENING SALE
ARTIST
Robert Motherwell
Size
68 1/8 x 81 in. (173 x 205.7 cm)
Description
PROPERTY FROM AN EXCEPTIONAL PRIVATE COLLECTION
Medium
acrylic and charcoal on canvas
Signature
Painted in 1968.
Provenance
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc., New York
Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner Hempel, California (acquired from the above in 1969)
Gagosian Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1991
Literature
Robert Motherwell, "Open No. 25," Art Now: New York, vol. 1, no. 5, May 1969, n.p. (illustrated)
"ART NOW: Color Slide & Lecture series," Artforum, vol. X, no. 2, October 1971, p. 94
Colin Naylor and Genesis P-Orridge, eds., Contemporary Artists, New York, 1977, p. 666
Jack Flam, Katy Rogers and Tim Clifford, eds., Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941-1991, vol. II, New Haven, 2012, no. P421, p. 236 (illustrated)
Exhibited
New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Robert Motherwell: “Open” Series, 1967-1969, May 13–June 7, 1969