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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 14, 2025 | Phillips | New York | Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Morning Session | 127 | $****** - ****** | Premonition Open with Flesh over Grey |
paintings
182.9 x 213.4 cm (72 x 84 in)
acrylic, charcoal and graphite on canvas
signed and dated \\\"Motherwell 25 Aug 74\\\" upper left; incised with the artist"s signature and date “Motherwell 74” upper right; signed, titled and dated “R. Motherwell Sept 1974 \\\"PREMONITION OPEN, WITH FLESH OVER GREY” on the reverse
Private Collection
Dr. Eleonore and Dr. Michael Stoffel (circa 1980)
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2008
Detroit, Gertrude Kasle Gallery, emRobert Motherwell: Paintings, Collages, Drawings,/em November 8, 1975-January 8, 1976, no. 14
Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Kulturhuset Stockholm; Vienna, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, emRobert Motherwell,/em 1976-1977, no. 50, pp. 52, 79, 111 (illustrated, p. 79, 111)
Musée d"Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, emRobert Motherwell: Choix de Peintures et Collages,/em June 21-September 20, 1977
Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Academy, emRobert Motherwell: Paintings and Collages, 1941-1977,/em October 14-November 20, 1977
London, Royal Academy of Arts, emRobert Motherwell: Paintings and Collages from 1941 to Present,/em January 14-March 19, 1978, no. C
Cologne, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle Köln, emWahre Wunder: Sammler und Sammlungen im Rheinland,/em November 5, 2000-February 1, 2001, no. 66, pp. 200, 306 (illustrated, p. 200)
London, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, emRobert Motherwell: ‘Open",/em June 17-August 28, 2009
New York, Andrea Rosen Gallery, emCellblock I,/em December 1, 2012-February 2, 2013, pp. 50-51, 89 (installation view illustrated, pp. 50-51)
Paris, Galerie Templon, emRobert Motherwell: Open Series,/em May 17-July 21, 2018
Hong Kong, Perl Lam Galleries, emArriving at Reality: Robert Motherwell"s \\\"Open Paintings\\\" and Related Collages,/em January 9-March 6, 2019
Marcelin Pleynet, emRobert Motherwell,/em Paris, 1989, pp. 136, 239 (illustrated, p. 136)
Jack Flam, emMotherwell,/em Oxford, 1991, no. 110, pp. 100, 128 (illustrated, p. 100)
Jean-Luc Chalumeau, emMotherwell 1915-1991,/em Paris, 1998, no. 69, pp. 61, 63 (illustrated, p. 61)
emRobert Motherwell Open,/em London, 2009, pp. 158, 182 (illustrated, p. 158)
Jack Flam, Katy Rogers and Tim Clifford, eds., emRobert Motherwell: Paintings and Collages, A Catalogue Raisonné 1941-1991, Volume 2, Paintings on Canvas and Panel,/em New Haven, 2012, no. P807, p. 400 (illustrated)
Robert Motherwell
Premonition Open with Flesh over Grey
72 x 84 in. (182.9 x 213.4 cm)
signed and dated \\\"Motherwell 25 Aug 74\\\" upper left; incised with the artist"s signature and date “Motherwell 74” upper right; signed, titled and dated “R. Motherwell Sept 1974 \\\"PREMONITION OPEN, WITH FLESH OVER GREY” on the reverse
acrylic, charcoal and graphite on canvas
Executed in 1974, in the United States.
