Live Auction 20518Fields of Vision: The Private Collection of Artists Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason Live Sale
ROBERT MOTHERWELL (1915-1991)
Lot 13 Fields of Vision: The Private Collection of Artists Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason

ROBERT MOTHERWELL (1915-1991)

The Blue Wall

Closed18 May 2021

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USD 18,750

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ROBERT MOTHERWELL (1915-1991)
The Blue Wall
signed with the artist’s initials and dated ‘RM 77’ (lower right)
acrylic, charcoal and graphite on paper
11 x 13 3⁄4 in. (27.9 x 34.9 cm.)
Executed in 1977.

Estate of the artist
Dedalus Foundation, New York, 1991
Acquired from the above by the late owners, 1996

Specialist note

When Emily Mason was growing up, she would accompany her mother, the artist Alice Trumbull Mason, to events at the Eighth Street Club, where fellow attendees included Robert Motherwell as well as Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Franz Kline and Helen Frankenthaler. The present work by Motherwell hung in Mason and Kahn's apartment as well as in Mason's New York City studio as part of what she called her "wall of friends."