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Robert Motherwell: American, 1915 - 1991

Gemini G.E.L.

James Webb: American, active late 20th century

Soot-Black Stone, #6
1973: lithograph (stone) in black on Hawthorne of Larroque handmade paper; image: 76 x 30.5 cm (29 15/16 x 12 in.); sheet: 91.2 x 46.1 cm (35 7/8 x 18 1/8 in.); Belknap 1980, no. 118; Gift of Benjamin B. Smith; 1985.47.132; Not on View

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: Motherwell 32/50; lower left verso stamped: GEMINI G.E.L. / LOS ANGELES, CALIF.; lower left verso in graphite: 1973 RM73-545

Marks and Labels

BS: Gemini chop, artist's chop

Provenance

Benjamin B. Smith, Beverly Hills, California; acquired 1985 by the National Gallery of Art

Bibliography

n.d.: Gemini G.E.L. Sequence List. Los Angeles, California: Gemini G.E.L., unpublished, no. 601.

1980: Belknap, Dorothy C., and Stephanie Terenzio. The Painter and the Printer: Robert Motherwell's Graphics, 1943-1980. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1980, no. 118.

2011: Ritchie, Charles. Gemini G.E.L. Online Catalogue Raisonné. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2011, no. . http://www.nga.gov/gemini

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