Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 107
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Half and Half
U.S. Art Canvas
1962
Oil and pasted papers on paperboard
40 x 27 in. (101.6 x 68.6 cm)
1962
Oil and pasted paper on paper
29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 62
artist’s studio number
c62/63-560
Verso (on backing board, reattached):
“u.s. art canvas” Robert Motherwell
oil + collage 1962
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
solo exhibitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Robert Motherwell:Works on Paper,
September 1965 (circulating).
comments
This collage takes its title from one of
the pasted papers, which is a torn package of Half-and-Half brand cigarettes.
It also contains a torn piece of blue
paper with an ink drawing on it; a similar piece of blue paper with a fragment
of a drawing on it appears in the collage
In Black with Pink (c164).
artist’s studio number
c62-543; c62-544
present owner
Collection of Lynn K. Altman
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Lynn K.
Altman, 2002
solo exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York,
December 1962, cat. no. 29 (on checklist; not in catalogue).
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.,
1965, cat. no. 27.
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Robert Motherwell:Works on Paper,
September 1965 (circulating).
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Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1976
(traveling), cat. no. 32, illus. p. 105.
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Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de
Paris, 1977.
1962
Oil and pasted paper on paper
29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm)
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh,
1977.
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles,
November 2002, cat. no. 2.
U.S. Art New York N.Y.
inscriptions
Recto, center, incised and inscribed:
Motherwell
group exhibitions
Art Institute of Chicago, May 1963,
cat. no. 92.
Recto, lower right: 7
references
San Francisco Examiner 1967, illus.
p. 24 (in exhibition).
Verso (on backing board, reattached)
[circled ]: u.s. art new york n.y.
R Motherwell 1962 [oil + collage]
comments
This work takes its title from the torn
label from a roll of canvas made by the
U.S. Art Canvas company that is pasted
at the lower center.
artist’s studio number
c62-1536
Verso (on backing board, reattached)
[partially abraded ]: pho[to #3]67
present owner
Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Linda
Hyman, 2002; [Cornette de Saint Cyr,
Paris, October 8, 2005, lot 65, illus.];
Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York,
2005
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