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Burning Petroleum

Burning Petroleum, 1969

Friends of Modern Art Acquisition Fund
Aris Koutroulis, American, 1938-2013
Robert Morris, American, 1931 - 2018

Lithograph printed in color ink on wove paper

Image: 20 × 27 7/8 inches (50.8 × 70.8 cm) Sheet: 22 1/4 × 29 7/8 inches (56.5 × 75.9 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Friends of Modern Art Fund

70.829.4

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Prints, Drawings & Photographs

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Topographical views

Signed and dated, in pencil, lower right: R Morris | 69

Watermark, printer's drystamp, lower center: BFK RIVES

Inscribed, in pencil, lower left: 1/125

1970-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

The Museum of Modern Art. American Prints 1960-1985. New York, 1986, p. 269.

© 2005 Robert Morris / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Robert Morris, Burning Petroleum, 1969, lithograph printed in color ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Friends of Modern Art Fund, 70.829.4.