Black Open

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Motherwell's fascination with black started when he was working on the Elegies and carried on throughout his career. The artist stated: ‘I discovered Black as one of my subjects – and with the black, the contrasting white, a sense of life and death which to me is quite Spanish. They are essentially the Spanish black of death contrasted with the dazzle of a Matisse-like sunlight’.

Black Open

Robert Motherwell

Artist: Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)
Title: Black Open
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Date: 1973
Inscriptions: Signed and dated by the artist lower right 'Robert Motherwell 1973'; Signed and dated by the artist on the reverse 'Robert Motherwell 1973'
Size: 182.9 x 91.4 cm : 72 x 36 in.
Provenance: Dedalus Foundation; Bernard Jacobson Gallery Artist's studio number: P73-2956
Literature: J. Flam, K. Rogers, T. Clifford, 'Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991', New Haven: Yale University Press. vol 2, 2012, p. 367, (illus. pl. 735); Hobbs, R, D. Kuspit, R. Mattison, S. Ostrow, J. Yau, M. Collings, 'Robert Motherwell ‘Open’'. London: 21 Publishing. Illus. p. 139
Exhibited: Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 20 May - 14 June 1987, cat. no. 60, as Untitled (Open); 'Robert Motherwell: Open', Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 17 June-28 August 2009
Reference: CC13-113