ROBERT MOTHERWELL
American, 1915-1991
Drunk with Turpentine
Signed and dated Motherwell/ Feb 79
Oil on paper
23 x 29 inches (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
Framed: 31 x 37 inches (78.5 x 93.5 cm)
This work served as the model for a large-scale 1981 painting, White Sanctuary [P1035, acrylic on canvas,
88 x 120 inches], which was included in Motherwell solo exhibitions in Buffalo and San Francisco (1983),
Leverkusen (2004), Munich (2005), and Paris (2007)
Provenance
Dedalus Foundation, New York, 1991
Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
Private Collection, Rochester, NY, c.1992 (acquired from the above, to the present)
Literature
Jack Flam, Katy Rogers, and Tim Clifford, Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue
Raisonné 1941-1991, New Haven and London, 2012, vol. 3, p. 618, no. W585, illustrated.
P.O.R.