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Robert Motherwell / Catalogues Raisonnés / Painting & Collages

SP10

An abstract painting whose surface is almost entirely covered in black paint, except for two small sections on the bottom edge of the canvas where white and yellow hues are visible.

The Spanish Night

 1959

An abstract painting whose surface is almost entirely covered in black paint, except for two small sections on the bottom edge of the canvas where white and yellow hues are visible.

Oil on canvasboard
6 x 8 inches (15.2 x 20.3 cm)

INSCRIPTIONS

Recto not signed, not dated
Verso: Robert Motherwell \ 1959
Verso (on backing board): Robert Motherwell 1959

PRESENT OWNER

Private collection

PROVENANCE

[Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, May 18, 1961, lot 89]; unknown owner, 1961; private collection; private collection, 2000; [South Bay Auctions, East Moriches, NY, October 22, 2022, lot 96]

COMMENTS

At the request of Marcel Duchamp, Motherwell donated this painting to a 1961 benefit auction supporting the American Chess Foundation.

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