Photo © Circle Auction — view this lot on Circle Auction ↗Basque Suite #2, 1971
Screenprint · ed. 1/2
Circle Auction · Sep 26, 2026$1,800 ≈ £1,358 ≈ €1,579Sign up free to see price
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Heiliger Geist
Robert Motherwell (American, 1915–1991) · 1975
Unsold / did not meet reserve
Estimate $140,000 – $180,000 (≈ £109,094 – £140,263) (≈ €119,576 – €153,741)
Offered at Phillips and passed / bought in. Counted in the artist’s sell-through rate; no price, so not in price averages.
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- Medium
- Acrylic · Paintings all acrylic results →As published: “acrylic on canvas and paper collage on canvasboard”
- Support
- Canvas
- Signed / inscribed
- Signed with the artist's initials and dated "RM 75" upper left
- Category
- Acrylic paintings
- Dimensions
- 36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
- Auction house
- Phillips
- Sale
- New Now (NY010620)
- Date
- September 30, 2020
- Location
- New York
- Lot
- 67
- Estimate
- $140,000 – $180,000 (≈ £109,094 – £140,263) (≈ €119,576 – €153,741)
- Source
- Auction house phillips.com ↗Retrieved Sep 26, 2026
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