Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 37
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Figure
Stone Gallery, New York, 1971; private
collection, 1971
Alternative Title: Collage
1945
Oil, pasted wood veneer, pasted sandpaper, and pasted papers on board
44¾ x 24½ in. (113.7 x 62.2 cm)
solo exhibitions
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York,
January 1946, cat. no. 14, as Collage.
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: R. Motherwell 45
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
November 1972 (traveling), cat. no. 5,
color illus. p. 16 (pl. 3), illus. p. 53.
Verso [circled ]: [14] «Figure» IX.45
artist’s studio number
c45-5086
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, 1946; Mr.
and Mrs. George Wittenborn, 1947;
[Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York,
November 17, 1971, lot 1, illus.]; Allan
Arts Club of Chicago, 1946 (traveling),
cat. no. 16.
group exhibitions
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, 1976 (traveling), cat. no. 140,
illus. p. 87.
Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York,
1977, cat. no. 117, color illus. n.p.
references
Artnews 1946a, illus. p. 21; Holmes
1972, sec. 3, p. 8; Conroy 1977, p. 86;
Van Hook 1983, p. 104, illus. p. 105
(fig. 6); Mattison 1985b, pp. 167–68,
illus. n.p. (fig. 135); Mattison 1987,
pp. 142–43, illus. p. 150 (fig. 56);
Gilbert 1998, pp. 368–69, illus. p. 562
(fig. 47); Rosenblum et al. 2004, p. 365,
color illus. p. 87 (pl. 60).
comments
This collage contains a piece of wood
veneer on the lower right side and part
of a sheet of one of the German wrapping papers that Motherwell had been
using in his collages since 1943.
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Figure
1945
Oil, pasted papers, and sand on
paperboard
30 x 23¼ in. (76.2 x 59.1 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: 45 Motherwell
artist’s studio number
c45-5006
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, 1945;
private collection, 1946
references
Seitz 1955, illus. n.p. (fig. 144);
Hobbs 1975b, p. 232; Seitz 1983,
illus. n.p. (fig. 156); Mattison 1985b,
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