Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), Open No. 103: Big Square Blue

Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)
Open No. 103: Big Square Blue
signed twice with the artist's initials and dated twice ‘RM 69’ (upper right and upper left)
acrylic and charcoal on canvas
80 ½ x 75 ¼ in. (207 x 192.4 cm.)
Executed in 1969.

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Provenance
Dedalus Foundation, New York
Private collection, New York, 2003
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 2006
Private collection, United States
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature
J. Flam, K. Rogers and T. Clifford, eds., Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941-1991, Vol. 2: Paintings on Canvas and Panel, New Haven, 2012, p. 269, no. P491 (illustrated).

Exhibited
Concord, Art Center in Hargate, St. Paul's School, Paintings and Collages by Robert Motherwell, February 1970, no. 31 (illustrated on the cover).
New York, Art Gallery, American Academy of Arts and Letters and National Institute of Arts and Letters, Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, May–June 1970, no. 50.
New York, Paul Kasmin Gallery, Caro, Frankenthaler, Louis, Motherwell, Noland, Olitski, Stella, January–February 2013.