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Robert Motherwell / Catalogues Raisonnés / Painting & Collages

SW10

An abstract painting whose surface is almost entirely covered in dark red paint, except for much of the bottom edge where white and a lighter red hue can be seen.

Untitled

 1960

An abstract painting whose surface is almost entirely covered in dark red paint, except for much of the bottom edge where white and a lighter red hue can be seen.

Oil on paper
20 ¼ x 24 ½ in. (51.4 x 62.2cm), irreg.

INSCRIPTIONS

Recto, lower right: Motherwell 60
Verso, on backing board: PAINTING 1957

CURRENT OWNER

Edith Kurzweil

PROVENANCE

William Phillips, ca. 1960; Edith Kurzweil, 2002

COMMENTS

This work was painted early in 1960. The inscription on the verso “PAINTING 1957” appears to refer to a different work that Motherwell may have previously put in this frame.

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