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Figure Before Blackness
  • Robert Motherwell
    1915-1991
    born: Aberdeen, Washington ; died: Princetown, Massachusetts ; active: United States
  • Figure Before Blackness, 1960
  • oil on canvas
  • Object Height/Width/Depth: 213 x 277 cm
    Object Height/Width/Depth: 83 7/8 x 109 1/16 in
  • Museum purchase: Peter T. Bohan Art Acquisition Fund and the R. Charles and Mary Margaret Clevenger
  • on display
  • 1995.0036
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Abstract painting with caucasian peach-colored shape in the foreground. On the right side is an orange rectangle with a curving offshoot in brown. There is a black semi-circle in the background.