Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 106
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The Mediterranean Sky
In White and Yellow Ochre
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
November 1972 (traveling), cat. no. 24,
color illus. p. 34 (pl. 9), illus. p. 72.
1961
Oil and pasted paper on paper
29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm)
1961
Oil, tempera, pasted papers, ink, and
charcoal on paper
40⅞ x 27 in. (103.8 x 68.6 cm)
Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1976
(traveling), cat. no. 30, illus. p. 105.
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 61
present owner
The Art Institute of Chicago. Estate of
Solomon B. Smith, 1986.1605
provenance
Solomon B. Smith, ca. 1963; Art
Institute of Chicago, 1986
solo exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York,
December 1962, cat. no. 12, illus. n.p.
group exhibitions
Art Institute of Chicago, 1967.
references
Baur 1967, illus. sec. Magazine, p. 42.
comments
The sole collage element in this work is
a small piece of torn brown paper at the
upper center that has a staple in it, but
which is pasted rather than stapled to
the support.
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collages
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: R Motherwell 61
Verso not seen [“lower center, in black
marker: Robert Motherwell ‘In White
+ Yellow Ochre’ 1961 27 x 41" oil +
collage,” per Phillips Collection
records]
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de
Paris, 1977, color illus. n.p.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo,
1983 (traveling), cat. no. 41, color illus.
p. 79; not shown in Los Angeles and
Seattle.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, 1984, cat. no. 85.
artist’s studio number
c61-5096
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1985
(traveling), cat. no. 75.
present owner
The Phillips Collection, Washington,
D.C.
group exhibitions
Tate Gallery, London, April 1964,
cat. no. 203a, illus. p. 169.
provenance
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.,
1965
University of Maryland Art
Department and Art Gallery, J. Millard
Tawes Fine Arts Center, College Park,
1969, illus. n.p.
solo exhibitions
Galleria Odyssia, Rome, 1962, cat.
no. 14.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.,
1965, cat. no. 18, illus. n.p.
California Palace of the Legion of
Honor, San Francisco, 1981 (traveling),
cat. no. 53, color illus. p. 195, illus.
p. 218.
Smith College Museum of Art,
Northampton, Mass., 1985, cat. no. 42.
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Calif.,
1987 (traveling).
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.,
1999, cat. no. 370, illus. p. 588.
University of Virginia Art Museum,
Charlottesville, 2004.
references
Motherwell in Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston, exh. cat. 1972, p. 72;
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
Bulletin 1972, p. 89; Arnason 1977b,
illus. n.p. (pl. 124); Arnason 1982, illus.
p. 141 (pl. 161); Flam 1991, color illus.
n.p. (pl. 52).
comments
The collage element near the center of
this work is composed of several torn
and pasted papers, including a fragment
of a page from a Russian-language
newspaper.
