Black Open, 1973

Basel 2019
Black Open

Bernard Jacobson Gallery

Painting
Acrylic on canvas
182.9 x 91.4 (厘米)
72.0 x 36.0 (吋)
Motherwell's fascination with black started when he was working on the Elegies and carried on throughout his career: ‘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’.