Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 2 - Flipbook - Page 32
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Caroline Morgan, Linda Ringsby,
Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Rosenberry III,
Sally H. Story, and three anonymous
donors. Additional funding from the
Motherwell Angels: Mark and Polly
Addison, Philip and Nancy Anschutz,
Nancy Lake-Benson, H. Kirk Brown III,
Robin and Steven Chotin, Colorado
National Bank, John and Lisa Dorn,
William L. and Dr. Margaret B. Dorn,
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis W. Douglas Jr.,
Duncan Oil, Inc., First Interstate
Bank of Denver, Charles and Diane
Gallagher, Dorothy Strear Goodstein,
Diane and Bob Greenlee, Fred and
Jane Hamilton, Dr. Charles and Linda
Hamlin, Mark and Diana Hayden,
Hinckley & Schmitt, Inc., J. Charles
Jordy Jr., Key Bank of Colorado,
Elizabeth T. Kirkpatrick, Amie Knox
and Jim Kelley, Mr. and Mrs. William
C. Kurtz, Edward and Margaret Leede,
Susan and John W. Madden III, Jan
and Frederick Mayer, McClain-Finlon
Advertising, Inc., Lilly and Paul Merage,
Larry and Carol Mizel, Andrea Pollack,
Priscilla Press and Joel Ehrlich, Judy
and Ken Robins, Barbara and George
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paintings on ca n v a s an d p a n e l
Schmitt, Tremont Corporation, Vail
Valley Arts Council, Ginny Williams,
and Robbi and Carl Williams
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Denver Art
Museum, 1994
solo exhibitions
Denver Art Museum, 1995, illus. n.p.
references
Mattison 1985b, illus. n.p. (fig. 128);
Paglia 1996, p. 56; Tieken 2000,
illus. n.p.
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Abstraction on Turquoise
Alternative Titles: [Untitled (Figure
in Turquoise)]; {Line Figure in
Turquoise Green}
1945
Oil, enamel, sand, and charcoal on
canvas board
24 x 19¾ in. (61 x 50.2 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right, incised:
Motherwell 45
Verso not signed, not dated
artist’s studio number
p45-2487
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
solo exhibitions
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York,
January 1946, cat. no. 9.
group exhibitions
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina
Sofía, Madrid, 1999 (traveling), color
illus. p. 253, as Line Figure on Turquoise
Green; shown in Madrid only.
references
Mattison 1985b, p. 165, illus. n.p.
(fig. 121), referred to in text and in
illus. erroneously as Figure in Turquoise;
Mattison 1987, p. 141, illus. p. 138
(fig. 53), referred to in text and in illus.
erroneously as Line Figure in Green;
Caws 2003, illus. p. 16 (ill. 7).
comments
A photograph of this painting taken
around 1982 by Eric Pollitzer shows
it without the red paint drip at the
upper right. According to conservator
Matthew Skopek, the red drip belongs
to the original paint film and may
have been caused by exposure to heat
sometime after 1982.
