Live Auction 15910Post-War & Contemporary Art
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)
Lot 17 MODERNISM TO ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM: WORKS FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION

Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)

In Black + White

Closed27 November 2018

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EUR 162,500

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Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)
In Black + White
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'RM 60' (lower right); signed, titled, numbered, inscribed and dated 'G6 In Black + White (gouache) Robert Motherwell 1960' (on the reverse)
gouache and pencil on paper
58 x 73.5cm.
Executed in 1960

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York.
Gimpel Fils Gallery, London.
William Pall Gallery, New York.
James Goodman Gallery, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1976.

Specialist note

"The subject does not pre-exist. It emerges out of the interaction between the artist and the medium. That is why, and only how a picture can be created, and why its conclusions cannot be predetermined. When you have a predetermined conclusion, you have 'academic art' by definition."
From The painter and the printer : Robert Motherwell's graphics, 1943-1980 Stephanie Terenzio, catalogue raisonné by Dorothy C. Belknap Robert Motherwell Provincetown, August 1980