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ROBERT MOTHERWELL (1915-1991)
Spontaneity #2
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'RM 66' (lower right); inscribed #17 (on the reverse)
ink on paper
3012 x 22 in. (77.5 x 55.9 cm.)
Executed in 1966.
Provenance
Dedalus Foundation, New York, 1991
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1998
Literature
K. McKenna, "At Art's Service," Los Angeles Times, October 26 1997, p. 66 (illustrated).
K. Rogers, Robert Motherwell Drawings: A Catalogue Raisonné, Volume Two: Drawings, New Haven and London, 2022, p. 348, no. D935 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Detroit, J.L. Hudson Gallery, Abstract Expressionism-A Continuing Tradition, November 1966.
Ohio, Dayton Art Institute, International Selection, 1967, September-October 1967.
Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, Robert Motherwell: Retrospectives del gran pintor norteamericnano, March-May 1975.
Los Angeles, Manny Silverman Gallery, Robert Motherwell: Works on Paper, 1950-1991, November-December 1997, no. 30.
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