Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 34
c20
(fig. 140, as Beige with Sand); Terenzio
1992b, p. 40; Caws 2003, color illus.
p. 11 (ill. 3).
comments
This work is rendered mostly in paint;
the only collage element is the piece
of wood veneer at the lower left.
Motherwell wrote that this collage was
“made in East Hampton, Long Island,
one winter, there is some sand in it
and the colors have to do with the
sand and sea in winter” (letter from
Motherwell cited in Fogg Art Museum
exh. cat. 1957, p. 239). The Samuel M.
Kootz Gallery first exhibited the work
in January 1946 as Abstraction with
Scallops, but by the time the Museum
of Modern Art acquired it and exhibited it in their Recent Acquisitions show
the following month, Motherwell had
renamed it In Beige with Sand.
c20
La Resistance
1945
Oil, pasted paper, ink, and sand
on board
36 x 47¾ in. (91.4 x 121.3 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right, incised [painted
over]: [Motherwell 45]
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City,
1975, cat. no. 3, illus. n.p.
artist’s studio number
c45-5014
present owner
Yale University Art Gallery. Gift of
Fred Olsen
Architecture Building, College of Fine
and Applied Arts, Urbana, Ill., 1950,
cat. no. 93, illus. n.p. (pl. 30).
provenance
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, 1945; Fred
Olsen, ca. 1949; Yale University Art
Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1954
Newark Museum, N.J., 1956, cat.
no. 49.
solo exhibitions
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York,
January 1946, cat. no. 13.
Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, 2006 (traveling), color
illus. p. 221 (pl. 117); shown in
Minneapolis only.
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York,
October 1949.
collages
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
November 1972 (traveling), cat. no. 2,
color illus. p. 13 (pl. 2), illus. p. 50.
group exhibitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
September 1946 (traveling), cat. no. 62;
shown in New York only.
Arts Club of Chicago, 1946 (traveling),
cat. no. 12.
22
Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo,
Brazil, 1961, cat. no. 3.
Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York,
1977, cat. no. 118, color illus. n.p.
references
Artnews 1946a, p. 21; Jewell 1946d,
sec. 2, p. 7; Wolf 1946a, p. 17; Kees
1948, illus. p. 87; G. 1949, p. 51;
S[harp] 1949, p. 22; Seitz 1955, pp. 64,
135, illus. n.p. (fig. 153); Celentano
1957, pp. 35, 98; Rosenberg 1961, illus.
p. 22 (in exhibition); Schiff 1961, illus.
p. 63; Freed 1972a, p. 8; Holmes 1972,
sec. 3, p. 8; Motherwell in Museum of
Fine Arts, Houston, exh. cat. 1972,
p. 50; Arnason 1977b, pp. 22, 24, illus.
p. 21 (pl. 7); Wolfowicz 1977, p. 15;
Fineberg 1978, p. 53; Arnason 1982,
pp. 22, 24, illus. p. 21 (pl. 10); Seitz
1983, pp. 23, 51, color illus. n.p.
(fig. 165); Mattison 1985b, pp. 166–68,
illus. n.p. (fig. 133); Albright-Knox Art
Gallery exh. cat. 1987, illus. p. 42
(fig. 3); Mattison 1987, pp. 142, 143,
illus. p. 139 (fig. 54); Pleynet 1989b,
pp. 24, 26–29, 32, 35, 37, 45–46, 51,
color illus. p. 73; Flam 1991, color illus.
n.p. (pl. 9); Pleynet 1991, pp. 12, 18;
Polcari 1991, p. 303; Caws 1996b,
p. 127; Chalumeau 1998, p. 5, color
illus. p. 13 (pl. 5); Gilbert 1998,
pp. 446–48, illus. p. 568 (fig. 53);
Pleynet 1998, pp. 87, 92–93; Wentrup
2001, pp. 53, 54, illus. (fig. 21); Caws
2003, illus. p. 20 (ill. 12).
