Photo © Rago Auctions — view this lot on Rago Auctions ↗Tricolor (for XXe Siècle), 1973
Lithograph · Paper
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Gauloises Bleues
Robert Motherwell (American, 1915–1991) · 1968
$6,250 price realized incl. premium
≈ £5,118≈ €5,721
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- Medium
- Etching · Prints & multiples all etching results →As published: “Etching, aquatint and collage in colors, on Dutch Copperplate Etching paper, with full margins”
- Support
- Panel
- Edition
- 49/75
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed and numbered 49/75 in pencil
- Category
- Etchings
- Dimensions
- I. 10 x 5 3/8 in. (25.4 x 13.7 cm) S. 22 1/4 x 14 1/4 in. (56.5 x 36.2 cm)
- Auction house
- Phillips
- Sale
- Evening & Day Editions (NY030216)
- Date
- October 26, 2016
- Location
- New York
- Lot
- 165
- Estimate
- $2,000 – $3,000 (≈ £1,638 – £2,457) (≈ €1,831 – €2,746)
- Source
- Auction house phillips.com ↗Retrieved Sep 27, 2026
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Screenprint · ed. 1/2
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Photo © Cowley Abbott — view this lot on Cowley Abbott ↗Oy/Yo (B. 196), 1978, 1978
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Photo © DuMouchelles — view this lot on DuMouchelles ↗Summertime in Italy (with Lines), 1966
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Photo © Phillips — view this lot on Phillips ↗Mickey Mouse, from Myths, 1981
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Photo © Phillips — view this lot on Phillips ↗Ten Landscapes, 1967
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Photo © Phillips — view this lot on Phillips ↗Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, from Reigning Queens, 1985
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