- Titles Lyric Suite (Proper)
- Artist Robert Motherwell, American, 1915 - 1991
- Medium ink on rice paper
- Dimensions sheet: 9 × 11 in. (22.9 × 27.9 cm) frame: 16 1/4 × 18 1/4 in. (41.3 × 46.4 cm)
- Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Purchase with funds provided by the Merton Brown Estate and the Thelma Brown Trust, AFI.10.2001.9
- Work Type drawing
- Classification Drawings
- Signature Recto, signed with initials in black ink, bottom right corner: RM
- Marks None
- Inscription Recto and verso: none Labels and inscriptions on verso of frame, now removed and in object file: Piece of old backing board, handwritten in black marker: D65-210 Yellow label, printed in black ink: OFA[logo] OLLENDORFF FINE ARTS / FINE ART PACKERS AND SHIPPERS / NEW YORK - SAN FRANCISCO / [printed in blue ink] Lot. No. Piece No. / [handwritten in red ink] 5935 576 White and green label, printed in black ink: J3 Grey and white label, printed in white and grey ink: [white ink] JUDSON ART WAREHOUSE / 49-20 FIFTH STREET / LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y. 11101 / 718-937-5500 / TELEX: 269136 JUDSON - FAX: 718-937-5860 / [grey ink] FLOOR ROOM PIECE / [handwritten in black marker, oriented sideways] 2WT 7379 1253 White label, printed in black ink and handwritten in graphite: [printed logo, on left side, oriented sideways] KULICKE / [printed] KULICKE FRAMES, INC. / 1007 MADISON AVENUE / [handwritten] 1291 / [printed] NEW YORK 21, NEW YORK / [handwritten] H / [printed] TEL: ALGONQUIN 4-0140 / [handwritten] 25 Piece of old backing board, handwritten in black marker: “LYRIC SUITE NO. __” / 1965
- Provenance Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), 1965, and retained until his death, 1991; by bequest to the Dedalus Foundation, Inc., New York; purchased by the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, 2001