Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 2 - Flipbook - Page 27
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Figure in Pink and Green
Alternative Title: Figure in Green
and Pink
1944
Oil and sand on canvas
40 x 28 in. (101.6 x 71.1 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right, incised:
Motherwell 44
Verso: Dec 44
artist’s studio number
p44-5133
present owner
Collection of Phyllis and Jerome Lyle
Rappaport
provenance
Private collection, ca. 1944; Samuel
M. Kootz Gallery, 1946; Mr. and Mrs.
John Murray Cuddihy, 1954; Marisa
del Re Gallery, Inc., ca. 1982; Phyllis
and Jerome Lyle Rappaport, 1985
solo exhibitions
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York,
January 1946, cat. no. 6, as Figure in
Green and Pink.
group exhibitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
September 1946 (traveling), cat. no. 61,
illus. p. 37; shown in New York only.
Stamford Museum & Nature Center,
Conn., 1982, illus. p. 21, as Figure on
Pink and Green.
Marisa del Re Gallery, New York,
November 1982.
references
McB[ride] 1946, p. 9; Wolf 1946a, p. 17;
Goossen 1959, illus. p. 34; Jinishian
1982, sec. C, p. 9, as Figure on Pink and
Green; Raynor 1982, sec. 23, p. 26, as
Figure on Pink and Green; Van Hook
1983, p. 104, illus. p. 105 (fig. 5);
Mattison 1985b, illus. n.p. (fig. 108);
Caws 2003, illus. p. 20 (ill. 13).
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Wall Painting with Stripes
Alternative Titles: The Spanish Jailer’s
Wife; Black and White; Black and
Ochre Painting
1944/1945
Oil on canvas
54 x 67⅛ in. (137.2 x 170.5 cm)
provenance
Leo Castelli, before 1952; J. Patrick
Lannan Sr., 1958; Lannan Foundation,
1977; Art Institute of Chicago, 1997
solo exhibitions
Art of This Century, New York,
October 1944, cat. no. 7 (shown in
early state), as The Spanish Jailer’s Wife.
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: R. Motherwell 44
Arts Club of Chicago, 1946 (traveling),
cat. no. 3.
Verso covered by relining, no longer
visible (inscriptions known from a
pretreatment photograph)
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin
College, Ohio, 1952 (not on checklist).
Verso [painted over]: [«The Spanish
Jailer’s Wife»]
Verso: black & white 1944
artist’s studio number
p44-5013
present owner
The Art Institute of Chicago. Restricted
gift of Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman
in honor of her grandchildren, Ellen
Steinberg and Peter Steinberg; gift of
Lannan Foundation, 1997.161
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Robert Motherwell, September 1965
(traveling), New York, cat. no. 9, color
illus. p. 28; Amsterdam, cat. no. 9, illus.
n.p.; Essen, cat. no. 9; Turin, cat. no. 9,
illus. p. 69 (pl. 9).
group exhibitions
Lannan Foundation Gallery, Los
Angeles, 1989.
Lannan Foundation Gallery, Los
Angeles, 1991.
pai ntin gs on c anvas and panel
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