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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 10, 2010 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Day Auction | 149 | $****** - ****** | Open #29 In Crimson With Charcoal Line | |||
May 15, 2008 | Sotheby's | New York | Contemporary Art Day Auction | 162 | $****** - ****** | Open #29 In Crimson With Charcoal Line |
paintings
208.3 x 290.2 cm (82 x 114.25 in)
acrylic and charcoal on canvas
signed with artist's initials 'RM' (upper right)
Private collection, 1974
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto
Dunkelman Gallery, Toronto
Anon. sale; Sotheby Parke Bernet New York, 18 May 1978, lot 209
Private collection
Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, 1982
Anon. sale; Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 9 November 1983, lot 76
Private collection, Chicago
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 15 May 2008, lot 162
Private collection
Anon. sale; Sotheby's, New York, 10 November, 2010, lot 149
Lillian Heidenberg Fine Art, New York and Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2014
New York, Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, Robert Motherwell: "Open" Series, 1967-1969 , May-June 1969.
Rome, Marlborough Galleria d'Arte; Galleria Toninelli, Milan and Galleria La Bussola, Turin, Robert Motherwell, October 1969-February 1970.
Boston, Harcus Krakow Gallery, Robert Motherwell , May-June 1980, n.p., no. 3.
New York, Marisa del Re Gallery, Ten American Abstract Masters , May 1981, n.p. (illustrated).
Washington, D.C., B. R. Kornblatt Gallery, Eleven Paintings and Two Sculptures from the Sixties , November-December 1981, n. 7.
Stamford Museum & Nature Center, Abstract Expressionism Lives! , September-November 1982, p. 20 (illustrated).
Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Three Decades: The Oliver-Hoffmann Collection, December 1988-February 1989, p. 24 (illustrated).
New York, Spanierman Modern, August Gallery Selections, August-September 2010, n.p. (illustrated).
Robert Motherwell: Bilder und Collagen 1967-1970 , exh. cat., Galerie im Erek, St. Gallen, 1971, p. 14 (illustrated).
“Robert Motherwell”, Flash Art , January-February 1977, p. 49 (illustrated).
K. Beals, “Abstract Expressionism Still Lives”, Gannett Westchester Newspapers , 22 October 1982, p. 1.
J. R. Jinishian, “Not 'Pretty' nor Recognizable, but Strong, Personal, Alive!”, Bridgeport Post , 31 October 1982, p. 9.
S. Kurtzman, “Name Artists in Stamford Show, Abstract art in Stamford.”, Fairpress , 27 October 1982, sec. C. p. 5.
J. Flam, K. Rogers and T. Clifford, Robert Motherwell, Paintings and Collages, A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941-1991, Volume Two: Paintings on Canvas and Panel , New Haven and London, 2012, pp. 238-239, no. P425 (illustrated).
ROBERT MOTHERWELL (1915-1991)
Open No. 29: In Crimson with Charcoal Line
signed with artist's initials 'RM' (upper right)
acrylic and charcoal on canvas
82 x 114 1/4 in. (208.2 x 290.2 cm.)
Painted in 1969.
