Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 41
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A Wall in Italy
group exhibitions
Randolph-Macon Woman’s College,
Lynchburg, Va., 1952, cat. no. 15.
Viva
p. 16; Amsterdam, cat. no. 11, illus. n.p.;
Essen, cat. no. 11; Turin, cat. no. 11,
illus. p. 71 (pl. 11).
1946
Oil, pasted papers, and sand on board
37¾ x 30¼ in. (95.9 x 76.8 cm)
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1953,
cat. no. 94.
1946
Oil, gouache, pasted papers, and sand
on board
13 x 16¾ in. (33 x 42.5 cm)
group exhibitions
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York,
May 1946 (?).
inscriptions
Recto, lower right [“signed and dated
lower right,” per André Emmerich
Gallery exh. cat. 1989; cropped out in
only available image]
Verso not seen [“signed and dated . . .
on the reverse,” per André Emmerich
Gallery exh. cat. 1989]
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Vera G. and Albert A. List, 1955; Mr.
and Mrs. M. A. Gribin, before 1970;
private collection; André Emmerich
Gallery, 1988; private collection, 1989;
Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg,
ca. 1995; Greenberg Van Doren, Saint
Louis; Spencer Tomkins Fine Art, Inc.,
New York, 1998; private collection, 1998
solo exhibitions
Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, 1974,
cat. no. 1, color illus. n.p.
Art Gallery, University of California at
Riverside, 1973.
André Emmerich Gallery, New York,
1989, cat. no. 10, color illus. n.p.
references
Seldis 1974b, sec. C, p. 82; Mattison
1985b, p. 61, illus. n.p. (fig. 72).
comments
This collage was part of the Walls
of Europe series that Motherwell
described in a letter to Dorothy Miller
dated May 22, 1946, as a subgroup in
the “political” works that he was working on at the time (see “Writings by
the Artist,” in the Bibliography).
Although this collage has been dated as
early as 1943, it appears to have been
done in 1946, based on its style, subject, and the date assigned to it during
its early exhibition history.
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inscriptions
Recto, upper right: Motherwell 46
artist’s studio number
c46-5054
present owner
Private collection, Munich
provenance
Robert E. Kantor, Atherton, Calif.,
ca. 1946; [Christie’s, New York,
November 1, 1984, lot 9, illus.]; private
collection, Munich, 1984
solo exhibitions
Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo,
Brazil, 1961, cat. no. 4.
Pasadena Art Museum, Calif.,
February 1962, cat. no. 7.
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Robert Motherwell, September 1965
(traveling), New York, cat. no. 11, illus.
San Francisco Museum of Art, 1964.
references
Schiff 1961, illus. p. 63; Claus 1965,
p. 4; Hudson 1965, sec. G, p. 7;
Arnason 1966a, p. 34, illus. p. 27
(fig. 12); Arnason 1966b, p. 27; Hunter
1970, illus. p. 93; Arnason 1977b,
pp. 22, 24, 37, illus. p. 23 (pl. 9); Huser
1977, p. 55; Musée d’Art Moderne
de la Ville de Paris exh. cat. 1977, illus.
n.p.; Pleynet 1977, pp. 187, 189, 191–
94; Gaugh 1978, p. 31; Mattison 1981,
p. 198; [Pleynet] 1981, pp. 20, 21;
Arnason 1982, pp. 22, 24, 37, color
illus. p. 23 (pl. 12); Mattison 1985b,
pp. 172–73, illus. n.p. (fig. 149); Pleynet
1986, pp. 67, 70, 73–77, 79; Mattison
1987, pp. 71, 111–12, 144–45, 205, illus.
p. 151 (fig. 57); Pleynet 1989b, pp. 29,
32, color illus. p. 75; Flam 1991, p. 21,
color illus. n.p. (pl. 12); Polcari 1991,
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