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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 7, 2020 | Christie's | New York | Post-War & Contemporary Art Day Sale | 324 | $****** - ****** | Q |
paintings
35.6 x 25.4 cm (14 x 10 in)
oil on canvasboard
Estate of the artist
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1991
Storrs, William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Robert Motherwell & Black, March-June 1979, p. 132, no. 43 (illustrated).
"The Day They Hung Robert Motherwell", Newtown Bee, 6 April 1979, pp. C1, C28-29 (illustrated).
V. Raynor, "Motherwell Fuses Color and Expression", New York Times, 15 April 1979, p. 23-14 (illustrated).
Robert Motherwell: Stephen's Iron Crown and Related Works, exh. cat., Fort Worth Art Museum, 1985, p. 26 (illustrated).
D. J. Clarke, The Influence of Oriental Thought on Postwar American Painting and Sculpture, London, 1988, p. 205, pl. 93 (illustrated).
Z.-K. Qin, The Influence of Oriental Art and Ideas on Robert Motherwell's Work: An Investigation of Certain Affinities Between his Work and Chinese and Japanese Calligraphy and Ink Painting, Richmond, 1996, pp. 57-58, 115, fig. 62 (illustrated).
J. Flam, K. Rogers and T. Clifford, Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941-1991, Vol. 2: Paintings on Canvas and Panel, New Haven and London, 2012, p. 182, no. P313 (illustrated).
