Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 2 - Flipbook - Page 30
p18
p18
Figuration
1945
Oil, sand, and graphite on canvas
18 x 14 in. (45.7 x 35.6 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: Motherwell 45
present owner
Collection of Joann and Gifford
Phillips
provenance
Joann and Gifford Phillips, 1960
solo exhibitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Robert Motherwell, September 1965
(traveling), New York, cat. no. 10,
illus. p. 16; Amsterdam, cat. no. 10,
illus. n.p.; Essen, cat. no. 10; Turin,
cat. no. 10, illus. p. 70 (pl. 10).
Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, 1974,
cat. no. 3, illus. n.p.
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paintings on ca n v a s an d p a n e l
group exhibitions
Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, 1945, cat. no. 109, as Figure.
Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1976
(traveling), cat. no. 4, illus. p. 98.
p19
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo,
1983 (traveling), cat. no. 8, illus. p. 58;
not shown in Los Angeles and
Washington, D.C.
Alternative Title: Figure
1945
Oil on Masonite
24 x 18 in. (61 x 45.7 cm)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, 1984, cat. no. 1.
inscriptions
Recto, upper left, incised and inscribed:
Motherwell 45
Des Moines Art Center, 1948, cat.
no. 83.
Verso: R. Motherwell 1945 “Figure”
Marisa del Re Gallery, New York,
November 1982.
Verso: Jan 45 “Figuration”
artist’s studio number
p45-5145
p19
group exhibitions
UCLA Art Galleries, Los Angeles,
1962, cat. no. 66.
Figure in Red
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
September 1946 (traveling), cat. no. 64,
illus. p. 38 (upside down); not shown
in Bloomington.
Verso [circled ]: [4] Figure in Red
references
Kay 1965, p. 4; Arnason 1966a, p. 34,
illus. p. 29 (fig. 13, upside down);
Cooney 1968, illus. n.p. (pl. 16);
Arnason 1977b, p. 25; Pleynet 1977,
p. 189; Arnason 1982, p. 25; Inje 1984,
p. 13; Mattison 1985b, p. 165, illus.
n.p. (fig. 122); Pleynet 1986, p. 70;
Mattison 1987, pp. 141, 148.
artist’s studio number
p45-5016; p46-5059
present owner
Private collection, New York
provenance
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, ca. 1945;
private collection, ca. 1946; private
collection, New York, ca. 1984
solo exhibitions
Arts Club of Chicago, 1946 (traveling),
cat. no. 4.
references
Jewell 1945b, sec. 2, p. 7, as Figure; Seitz
1955, illus. n.p. (fig. 154b); Celentano
1957, p. 35; Seitz 1983, illus. n.p.
(fig. 167, upside down); Mattison
1985b, pp. 179–81, 218, illus. n.p.
(fig. 157); Mattison 1987, pp. 148–49,
184, illus. p. 157 (fig. 63, upside down).
