Live Auction 2598Post-War & Contemporary Art Morning Session
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)
Lot 113

Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)

Open, # 75

Closed15 November 2012

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USD 482,500

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Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)
Open, # 75
signed with artist's initials 'RM' (upper left); signed again, titled, inscribed and dated 'R. Motherwell Summer, 1969 "OPEN, #75"' (on the reverse)
acrylic and charcoal on canvas
60 x 40 in. (152.4 x 101 cm.)
Painted in 1969.

Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Inc., New York
Lawrence Rubin, New York

Specialist note

"the 'open' series...the first long sustained uninterrupted conscious effort of mine to explore an idea." Robert Motherwell



This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Paintings & Collages by Robert Motherwell being prepared by the Dedalus Foundation.