拍品 94
- 94
ROBERT MOTHERWELL | Samurai No. 13
估價
200,000 - 300,000 USD
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描述
- Robert Motherwell
- Samurai No. 13
- signed with the artist's initials and dated 77
- acrylic on canvas mounted to Masonite
- 48 by 36 in. 121.9 by 91.4 cm.
來源
André Emmerich Gallery, Inc., New York
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy J. Younger, Houston
Sotheby's, New York, 9 May 1996, Lot 175
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy J. Younger, Houston
Sotheby's, New York, 9 May 1996, Lot 175
Acquired from the above sale by the present owner
展覽
Naples, Florida, Philharmonic Center for the Arts, American Painting, February - March 1996
出版
Constance W. Glenn, "The Collectors: A House Created for Art; Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy J. Younger in Houston," Architectural Digest 39, no. 4, April 1982, pp. 100-05, illustrated in color
Jack Flam, Katy Rogers, and Tim Clifford, Eds., Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941-1991, Volume Two: Paintings on Canvas and Panel, New Haven and London 2012, cat. no. P934, p. 459, illustrated in color
Jack Flam, Katy Rogers, and Tim Clifford, Eds., Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941-1991, Volume Two: Paintings on Canvas and Panel, New Haven and London 2012, cat. no. P934, p. 459, illustrated in color
Condition
This work is in very good condition overall. There is evidence of wear and handling to the turning edges, most notably where soft impression marks are visible from the frame along the turning edges, and at the bottom right corner where the canvas has begun to fray and a few associated scattered pinpoint losses to the pigment are visible. There is a layer of reflective varnish visible over the artist's signature. Under Ultraviolet light inspection, the varnished area fluoresces brightly, but is not the result of restoration. Framed.
拍品資料及來源
"Black and white have been Robert Motherwell’s main colors for over thirty years now; the chromatic bedrock of his image-making. And this underlying dialectic of black and white—graphic, stark and reductive—has allowed Motherwell to achieve an art of absolutes without having had to limit the play of his inventive mind to a single (absolute) image, and an art of pure abstraction without having had to reject the notion of subject matter." Jack Flam in: Exh. Cat., Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery (and traveling), Robert Motherwell, 1984, p. 10