Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 2 - Flipbook - Page 31
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Still Life with Black
1945
Oil on canvas
18¼ x 14 in. (46.4 x 35.6 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: Robert
Motherwell 45
Verso not seen [“dated Jan 45 and
partially titled on the reverse; titled on
the stretcher,” per Sotheby’s 1997]
present owner
Unknown
provenance
Walter Pistole, 1945; Estate of Walter
Pistole, 1994; [Sotheby’s, New York,
May 7, 1997, lot 236, illus.]; unknown
owner, 1997
solo exhiBitions
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York,
January 1946, cat. no. 3.
Arts Club of Chicago, 1946 (traveling),
cat. no. 7.
references
Coates 1946, p. 50.
comments
Our reproduction of this work comes
from the 1997 Sotheby’s auction
catalogue.
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Head
Brown Study
1945
Oil on canvas
18 x 14 in. (45.7 x 35.6 cm)
1945
Oil on canvas board
18 x 13¾ in. (45.7 x 34.9 cm)
inscriptions
Recto not signed, not dated
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: R. Motherwell 45
Verso covered by relining, no longer
visible [“signed, dated, and titled,”
per present owner]
Verso: R. Motherwell “Brown Study”
1945
present owner
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Straus
provenance
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, 1945;
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Straus, 1946
group exhiBitions
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1947,
cat. no. 35.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1975.
artist’s studio numBer
p45-7
present owner
Denver Art Museum Collection.
Acquired through the generosity of
the Dedalus Foundation and the following donors: Florence R. & Ralph L.
Burgess Trust, Laurencin Deaccessions
Fund, Vance Kirkland Acquisitions
Fund, and the Marion G. Hendrie Fund.
Major memorial gifts from Joan E.
Anderman, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh R.
Catherwood, Mr. and Mrs. John B.
Chafee, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E.
Congdon, Mr. and Mrs. Cortlandt S.
Dietler, Suzanne Farver, Katherine L.
Lawrence, Jan and Frederick Mayer,
pai ntin gs on c anvas and panel
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