Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 2 - Flipbook - Page 39
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{ Title unknown}
Crystal and Earth Yellow
Western Figure
Ca. 1946
Paint on canvas (?)
54 x 36 in. (137.2 x 91.4 cm), approx.
1946
Oil on canvas
18 x 14 in. (45.7 x 35.6 cm)
1947
Oil on panel
16½ x 7¾ in. (41.9 x 19.7 cm)
inscriptions
Unknown
inscriptions
Recto, upper right, incised:
Motherwell 46
inscriptions
Recto, lower right, incised: RM 47
present owner
Unknown
provenance
The artist
comments
This work is known only from a
1946 photograph by Francis Lee of
Motherwell in his East Hampton
studio, where it appears (here highlighted) on the artist’s easel; it may
have been subsequently painted over
or destroyed.
Verso not seen [signed, titled “Chrystal
[sic] and Earth Yellow,” and dated
“Ap 14–May 29 1946,” per André
Emmerich Gallery Papers, Archives
of American Art]
artist’s studio number
p46-5148
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Vera G. and Albert A. List; Mr. and
Mrs. Jerome M. Comar, 1964;
Waddington Galleries, London, 1977;
private collection, Greece, 1977; James
Goodman Gallery, New York, 1986;
private collection, 1986
references
Mattison 1985b, pp. 194, 201–2,
illus. n.p. (fig. 169).
Verso not seen [“Western Figure /
Motherwell,” per present owner;
“signed, inscribed with title, and
dated again on the reverse,” per
Christie’s 1983]
p41
cat. no. 34, illus. n.p.; Bloomfield Hills
and Memphis, cat. no. 28, illus. n.p.
Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra
University, Hempstead, N.Y., 1969.
Montclair Art Museum, N.J., 1972,
cat. no. 8.
references
Mattison 1985b, illus. n.p. (fig. 179);
Paul 1986, p. 67, color illus. p. 67.
artist’s studio number
p47-5157
present owner
Basha Szymanska Lewis
provenance
Betty Parsons, ca. 1949; [Christie’s,
New York, November 9, 1983, lot 338,
illus. (not sold)]; private collection,
1983; Basha Szymanska Lewis,
ca. 2004
group exhibitions
Galerie Maeght, Paris, 1947.
Finch College Museum of Art, New
York, March 1968 (traveling), New York,
pai ntin gs on c anvas and panel
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