- Titles Lyric Suite #7, #8, #9 (Descriptive)
- Artist Robert Motherwell, American, 1915 - 1991
- Medium red color pencil and gouache on paper
- Dimensions sheet (.1): 11 1/4 × 14 1/4 in. (28.6 × 36.2 cm) sheet (.2): 11 1/4 × 14 1/4 in. (28.6 × 36.2 cm) sheet (.3): 11 5/16 × 14 1/4 in. (28.7 × 36.2 cm) frame: 21 5/8 × 53 5/8 × 1 3/4 in. (54.9 × 136.2 × 4.4 cm)
- Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of the Dedalus Foundation, AFI.11.2001.1-.3
- Work Type drawing
- Classification Drawings
- Signature .1: Signed with initials in pencil, recto, upper right: RM .2: Signed with initials in pencil, recto, upper right: RM .3: Signed with initials and dated in pencil, recto, upper left, incised into paint: RM 59
- Marks .1: Chopmark, top left corner, oriented sideways: [inside oval] STRATHMORE / SECONDS .2: None .3: None
- Inscription .1: Recto, bottom left corner, in graphite: 7 Verso:none .2: Recto, bottom left corner, in graphite 8 Verso: none .3: Recto, bottom left corner, in graphite: 9 Verso: none .1, .2, .3: Labels, stamps, stickers, and inscriptions from old frame, now removed and adhered to verso of new frame, from top to bottom: Inscribed on old stretcher bar, in black marker: [crossed through] “LYRIC SUITE” Inscribed on old stretcher bar, in black marker: 59/4XX / 59/4XX White label, printed in black ink: A2 Inscribed in black marker, in artist’s hand: R Motherwell / 1959 White label, printed in black ink: B4 Inscribed in graphite, in artist’s hand: Motherwell 5914 Inscribed in black marker: Ph XIII - 5 Inscribed in graphite: 61.2883.1-3 White label, printed and typed in black ink: [printed] Museum of Modern Art / LOAN / [typed] 61.2883.1-.3 / Sidney Janis White label, printed and typed in black ink: [printed] THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART / 11 WEST 53RD STREET NEW YORK / [typed] ABSTRACT DRAWINGS AND WATERCOLORS: U.S.A. / [printed] ARTIST [typed] Motherwell / [printed] TITLE [typed] Lyric Suite, Red Pencil / [printed] CIRCULATING EXHIBITION NO. / MUSEUM NO. [typed] 61.2983.1-.3 [red stamp] 4 White label, printed and typed in black ink: [printed] INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE BELLAS ARTES MUSEO NACIONAL DE ARTE MODERNO / [centered] OFICINA DE REGISTRO DE OBRAS [right aligned] MEXICO / AUTOR [typed] ROBERT. MOTHERWELL. (1915) [printed] TITULO [typed] “SUITE LIRICA” 7, 8, 9” / [printed] TECNICA [typed] LAPIZ Y GOUACHE. [printed] MEDIDAS [typed] 28.6 x 36.3, 28.7 x 36, 28.8 x 36 / [printed] PINTADO (FECHA) [typed] 1959 [printed] COLECCION [typed] SIDNEY JANIS GALLERY, N.Y Inscribed in black marker INV D59-701 / AI-65 Inscribed in black ink: 61.2983.1-.3 .1, .2, .3: Inscriptions on old frame stretcher bars, now removed and in storage: Inscribed in black and red marker: [black marker] "LYRIC SUITE" [red marker] # 7, 8, 9 Inscribed in graphite: C-4 .1, .2, .3: Stamps and inscriptions on frame verso: Stamp, in black ink, bottom left of stretcher bar: BARK FRAMEWORK, INC. [in rectangle] / 21-24 44th AVENUE, LONG ISLAND CITY, NY 11101 Inscribed in graphite, center stretcher bar: 20 ½ [oriented sideways] Stamp, in black ink, lower right of frame backing: OP-3 / ACRYLIC GLAZING / USE NO MASKING TAPE
- Provenance Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), 1959, and retained until his death, 1991; by bequest to the Dedalus Foundation, Inc., New York; gift to the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, 2001