Collection Burning Petroleum

Burning Petroleum

Robert Morris , Artist Aris Koutroulis , Printer Friends of Modern Art Acquisition Fund , Publisher
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About the Artwork

Burning Petroleum

1969

Robert Morris (Artist) American, 1931 - 2018 Aris Koutroulis (Printer) American, 1938-2013 (Publisher) Friends of Modern Art Acquisition Fund

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)

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Founders Society Purchase, Friends of Modern Art Fund

70.829.4

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

Inscribed, in pencil, lower left: 1/125

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

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

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

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© 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.

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