Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 2 - Flipbook - Page 34
p27
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina
Sofía, Madrid, 1999 (traveling), color
illus. p. 255, as Untitled (The Studio);
shown in Madrid only.
references
Mattison 1985b, p. 165, illus. n.p.
(fig. 120); Mattison 1987, illus. p. 136
(fig. 51).
p27
p28
p29
Untitled
Untitled
Figuration
Ca. 1945
Oil on Masonite
12 x 9 in. (30.5 x 22.9 cm)
1945
Oil and sand on canvas
Dimensions unknown
inscriptions
Recto not signed, not dated
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: Motherwell 45
Alternative Title: Flight
1945
Oil and graphite on canvas
23⅜ x 19½ in. (59.4 x 49.5 cm),
approx.
Verso: For Ann + Frank their
friendly relative Robert Motherwell
1951
Verso not seen
present owner
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Anonymous gift, 1997.48
provenance
The artist
provenance
Ann Rosener, 1951; Fine Arts
Museums of San Francisco, 1997
comments
This painting appears to be a variation
on the compositional structure of
two other untitled works of the same
size (p25 and p26). It is inscribed on
the verso to the artist’s stepsister Ann
Rosener and her husband, the art
dealer Frank Perls. The 1951 date on
the verso refers to the date of the dedication, not to the date when the work
was executed.
22
paintings on ca n v a s an d p a n e l
p29
p28
present owner
Unknown
references
Mattison 1985b, illus. n.p. (fig. 130).
comments
This work is known only from an early
black-and-white photograph. We do not
know whether it still exists in the form
illustrated here.
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: Motherwell 45
Verso not seen [“signed, titled, and
dated on reverse upper left inscribed
on reverse upper left ‘Sketch May
1945,’ ” per document in the Dedalus
Foundation Archives]
present owner
Unknown
provenance
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, 1946; Mr.
and Mrs. George Wittenborn, ca. 1947;
private collection; private collection,
1967; unknown owner, ca. 1970
references
Mattison 1985b, illus. n.p. (fig. 141).
comments
In a letter written to Motherwell sometime around 1965, Joyce Wittenborn
