Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 2 - Flipbook - Page 40
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Composition
The Dark Lady
The Night
Yellow Still Life
1947
Oil on Masonite
36 x 28 in. (91.4 x 71.1 cm)
Ca. 1947/1985
Oil and oil stick on Masonite
24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower center, incised: 47 RM
Alternative Title: French Ochre with Sky
and Personal Objects
1945–47
Oil on canvas
54 x 38 in. (137.2 x 96.5 cm)
Verso not seen
inscriptions
Recto, lower right, incised [painted
over]: [Motherwell]
Alternative Title: Figure
1947
Oil on canvas
53¼ x 37¼ in. (135.3 x 94.6 cm)
present owner
Private collection
Verso: R. Motherwell c. 1948 oil
on masonite
provenance
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, ca. 1947;
Vera G. and Albert A. List; [Sotheby
Parke Bernet, Inc., Los Angeles, May
15, 1972, lot 79, illus.]; unknown owner,
1972; [Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc.,
New York, May 2, 1973, lot 142A,
illus.]; private collection, 1973; private
collection, before 2001
references
Réalités nouvelles exh. cat. 1947, illus.
p. 59.
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paintings on ca n v a s an d p a n e l
artist’s studio number
p48-3140
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
group exhibitions
Washburn Gallery, New York, 2007,
cat. no. 7.
comments
This work was retouched by Motherwell
with an oil stick in 1985; originally, some
of the upper right corner had been white.
The verso signature and “c. 1948” date
were added later, probably in 1985 when
the oil-stick modifications were made.
inscriptions
Recto, lower left, incised [partially
obscured by frame]: R Motherwell
4[illegible]
Verso not seen
present owner
Fayez Sarofim Collection
provenance
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, ca. 1947;
private collection, 1950; Mr. and Mrs.
Meredith J. Long, Houston, 1987;
Fayez Sarofim, 1987
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 47
Verso not seen [“Robert Motherwell
May 1945–February 46–September
46,” per document in the Dedalus
Foundation Archives; “signed, titled,
and dated May 1945–February 46–
September 46 on the reverse; titled
and dated on the stretcher,” per
Sotheby’s 1994]
present owner
Unknown
provenance
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, 1947; private
collection, 1952; Sam Porter Fine Arts,
1992; unknown owner; [Sotheby’s,
New York, November 1, 1994, lot 18,
illus. (not sold)]
