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This watercolor was included in Motherwell's first solo exhibition at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century, the seminal gallery of Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism.
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Three Personages Shot (12 June)
Details
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)
Three Personages Shot (12 June)
signed and dated 'Robert Motherwell 12 June 1944' (upper left)
ink, wash, sepia, gouache and watercolor on paper
11½ x 13¾ in. (29 x 35 cm.)
Painted in 1944.
Three Personages Shot (12 June)
signed and dated 'Robert Motherwell 12 June 1944' (upper left)
ink, wash, sepia, gouache and watercolor on paper
11½ x 13¾ in. (29 x 35 cm.)
Painted in 1944.
Provenance
Art of this Century, New York
Exhibited
New York, Art of This Century, Robert Motherwell, 1944, no. 24.