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ROBERT MOTHERWELL (1915-1991)

Spontaneity #2

    Price Realised USD 176,400
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    USD 40,000 - USD 60,000
    ROBERT MOTHERWELL (1915-1991)

    Spontaneity #2

    Price Realised USD 176,400
    Price Realised USD 176,400
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    ROBERT MOTHERWELL (1915-1991)
    Spontaneity #2
    signed with the artist's initials and dated 'RM 66' (lower right); inscribed #17 (on the reverse)
    ink on paper
    301⁄2 x 22 in. (77.5 x 55.9 cm.)
    Executed in 1966.
    Provenance
    Dedalus Foundation, New York, 1991
    Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles
    Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1998
    Literature
    K. McKenna, "At Art's Service," Los Angeles Times, October 26 1997, p. 66 (illustrated).
    K. Rogers, Robert Motherwell Drawings: A Catalogue Raisonné, Volume Two: Drawings, New Haven and London, 2022, p. 348, no. D935 (illustrated).
    Exhibited
    Detroit, J.L. Hudson Gallery, Abstract Expressionism-A Continuing Tradition, November 1966.
    Ohio, Dayton Art Institute, International Selection, 1967, September-October 1967.
    Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, Robert Motherwell: Retrospectives del gran pintor norteamericnano, March-May 1975.
    Los Angeles, Manny Silverman Gallery, Robert Motherwell: Works on Paper, 1950-1991, November-December 1997, no. 30.
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