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ROBERT MOTHERWELL (1915-1991)
The Red Queen
aquatint and etching, on Whatman paper, 1989, initialed and numbered 'ap IX/X' in pencil (one of ten artist's proofs in Roman numerals, the edition was 40), published by the artist, New York, with his blindstamp
Image: 2358 x 1734 in. (600 x 451 mm.)
Sheet: 31 x 25 in. (787 x 635 mm.)
Provenance
Estate of the artist
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1991
Literature
Belknap 414; Engberg & Banach 476
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Lot Essay

Motherwell composed this image using a fragment from his etching Three Forms (see lot 39) as a collage element. The title is a reference to the Red Queen, with her cardlike torso and a brandished scepter, in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Motherwell often referred to printmaking as an Alice-in-Wonderland phenomenology.

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