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Photo: Nathaniel Willson
In Plato's Cave No. 4
Photo: Nathaniel Willson

In Plato's Cave No. 4

Date1973
Object number2014.25.49
Provenance[Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, California]; purchased from gallery by Virginia and Bagley Wright, Seattle, Washington, 1975
Photo CreditPhoto: Nathaniel Willson
Exhibition HistoryBuffalo, New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Robert Motherwell: Retrospective, Oct. 1, - Nov. 27, 1983 (Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Jan. 4 - Mar. 4, 1984; San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Apr. 12 - June 3, 1984; Seattle, Seattle Art Museum, June 21 - Aug. 5, 1984; Washington D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Sept. 8 - Oct. 28, 1984; New York, Guggenheim Museum, Dec. 1, 1984 - Jan. 31, 1985). Text by Jack D. Flam et al. No Cat. no., p. 13, 47, reproduced p. 98. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection of Modern Art, Mar. 4, 1999 - May 5, 1999. Text by Trevor Fairbrother. No cat. no., reproduced p.188.
Credit LineGift of the Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum
Dimensions72 x 86 in. (182.9 x 218.4 cm)
MediumAcrylic on canvas
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