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Property from the Walker Art Center, Sold to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund

Robert Motherwell

Blue Figure

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Property from the Walker Art Center, Sold to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund

Robert Motherwell

1915–1991


Blue Figure

signed, titled and dated 1971 (on the reverse)

acrylic on canvas

61 by 44 in.

154.9 by 111.8 cm.

Executed in 1971.

Penny and Mike Winton, Wayzata

Acquired as a gift from the above in 1996 by the present owner

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Robert Motherwell: Recent Paintings, 1972, no. 3

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Robert Motherwell: Reality and Abstraction, March - June 1996, no. 55

Mexico City, Museo Dolores Olmedo Patiño, Robert Motherwell: Obras selectas de la colección Walker Art Center, February - May 2008, p. 51, illustrated in color

Evanston, Northwestern University, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Robert Motherwell: An Attitude Toward Reality, From the Collection of the Walker Art Center, 2009, no. 30

Jack Flam, Katy Rogers and Tim Clifford, eds., Robert Motherwell, A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941-1991, Volume 2: Paintings on Canvas and Panel, New Haven, 2012, no. P627, p. 325, illustrated in color