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Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)
Lot 576 Property from the Collection of Sally Sirkin Lewis

Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)

How to Dance Sitting Down

Closed18 May 2017

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USD 118,750

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Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)
How to Dance Sitting Down
signed and dated 'R Motherwell 84' (upper right)
acrylic, printed paper and paper collage on panel
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 60.9 cm.)
Executed in 1984.

Knoedler & Co., New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1984

Specialist note

Motherwell stated in a 1985 interview "I've just found a marvelous title for a joyful collage. It's two lines from a Charles Olson poem 'How to dance/ Sitting down.' They are a small present from the outside world: a perfect metaphoric equivalent in words for that light-hearted summery colored abstraction."
(G. Perry, "Pulling Together the Pieces of Motherwell's Classic Modernism", Chicago Tribune, January 27, 1985)