Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 2 - Flipbook - Page 44
p51
p52
group exhibitions
San Francisco Museum of Art, 1955.
p51
p52
In Black and Grey
Black Still Life with Red
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, 1960.
solo exhibitions
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York,
April 1947, cat. no. 8.
Montgomery Center, Pomona College,
Claremont, Calif., 1960.
1947
Oil on Masonite
21¼ x 16 in. (54 x 40.6 cm)
1947
Oil on Masonite
20½ x 13¾ in. (52.1 x 34.9 cm)
references
W[olf] 1947, p. 21.
Pasadena Art Museum, Calif.,
October 1962.
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 47
University of California, Irvine, 1967
(traveling), cat. no. 94.
Verso not signed, not dated
inscriptions
Recto, upper left, incised [painted over]:
[RM]
Art Gallery, University of California at
Riverside, 1973, illus. p. 25.
references
House and Garden 1951, p. 128, color
illus. (installation view); S[eldis] 1960,
sec. G, p. 6; Seldis 1974b, sec. C, p. 82;
Mattison 1985b, pp. 178–79, illus. n.p.
(fig. 155), referred to in text and in
illus. as The Red Stripes; Mattison 1987,
pp. 147–48, illus. p. 156 (fig. 62),
referred to in text and in illus. as
The Red Stripes.
present owner
The Syracuse University Art
Collection. Gift of the Irwin and
Marjorie Guttag Foundation, Inc.
Recto, upper right, incised: RM
provenance
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, 1947; Vera
G. and Albert A. List, 1955; Stanley N.
Barbee; [Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc.,
New York, November 11, 1959, lot 94];
unknown owner, 1959; [Parke-Bernet
Galleries, Inc., New York, January 24,
1963, lot 140, illus.]; Marjorie and
Irwin Guttag, 1963; Syracuse
University Art Collection, N.Y., 1963
artist’s studio number
p47-5156
solo exhibitions
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York,
April 1947, cat. no. 2.
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paintings on ca n v a s an d p a n e l
Recto, lower left, incised: RM 47
Verso: black stillife [sic]
with red
present owner
Private collection, San Francisco
provenance
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, 1947; private
collection, ca. 1948; Pamela Lehrer
Beck, ca. 1984; [Christie’s, New York,
May 1, 1985, lot 3, illus. (not sold)];
Phyllis C. Wattis, 1985; private collection, San Francisco, 2003
