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SP5
Open No. 132: Blue and Beige
1970
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas
18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61 cm)
INSCRIPTIONS
Recto, lower left: Motherwell 70
Verso (on top stretcher bar): “OPEN 132”
Verso (on top stretcher bar): “OPEN 132”
PRESENT OWNER
Private collection, TX
PROVENANCE
Mr. Alex E. Booth, Jr., 1970; private collection, TX, 2017
COMMENTS
This painting appears on Motherwell’s May 26, 1970 “OPEN Series, 1967-1970” list. This typed studio list with handwritten additions lists 153 numbered Opens done within that three-year period and provided the model for the manner in which we present the titles of the Opens in the Catalogue Raisonné. It also appears in consignment and sales records of the Marlborough-Gerson Gallery.
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