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Property from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection

Robert Motherwell

The Blank End Off

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November 19, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

500,000 - 700,000 USD

Bid

450,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection

Robert Motherwell

1915 - 1991


The Blank End Off

signed with the artist's initials (upper right); signed and dated 1981 (on the reverse)

acrylic on canvas

60 by 96 in.

152.4 by 243.8 cm.

Executed in 1981.

M. Knoedler & Co., New York

Acquired from the above in 1982 by the present owner

New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Robert Motherwell: A Selection from Current Works, February - March 1982, no. 2

Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Seattle Art Museum; Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art and New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Robert Motherwell, October 1983 - February 1985, no. 85, p. 115, illustrated in color and no. 77 (New York)

Miami, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Motherwell, Segal, Stella, October 2023 - April 2024

Bruce Hooton, "What We Wanted to Do: Motherwell Remembers,” Art/World, vol. 6, no. 7, March - April 1982, p. 9

Kate Regan, "Messages from Motherwell," San Francisco Chronicle, 29 April 1984, p. 12

Harry F. Gaugh, "Elegy for an Exhibition," Artnews, vol. 85, no. 3, March 1985, p. 72

Marcelin Pleynet, Robert Motherwell. Collection: Histoire et Philosophie de l’Art, Paris 1989, p. 169, illustrated in color (in progress)

Katherine Hinds, ed., The Martin Z. Margulies Collection: Painting and Sculpture, Miami 2008, p. 199, illustrated in color

Jack Flam, Katy Rogers and Tim Clifford, eds., Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941-1991, vol. II, New Haven 2012, no. P1038, p. 504, illustrated in color

Exh. Cat., New York, Dominique Lévy Gallery, Robert Motherwell: Elegy to the Spanish Republic, November 2015 - January 2016, p. 46, illustrated (in an installation view of Robert Motherwell at Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, 1983)

Katherine Hinds, Martin Z. Margulies Collection, vol. 1, Bologna 2018, pp. 60-61, illustrated in color