Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 417
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Untitled
Alternative Title: Florida (?)
1945
Tempera on paperboard
20 x 15 in. (50.8 x 38.1 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: Robert Motherwell
1945
Verso not seen [“Florida 1945,” per
studio card]
present owner
Unknown
provenance
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, 1945;
unknown owner; Dr. and Mrs. Norman
Laskey; [Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc.,
New York, May 19, 1976, lot 28, illus.];
unknown owner, 1976; Solomon &
Company Fine Art, Inc., 1983;
unknown owner
group exhibitions
Nassau County Museum of Fine Art,
Roslyn Harbor, N.Y., 1981, cat. no. 55,
illus. p. 56.
Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn
Harbor, N.Y., 2000, color illus. p. 36.
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comments
According to information from the
records of the André Emmerich
Gallery, there is an unfinished painting
on the verso of this work, but we have
not been able to verify this (André
Emmerich Gallery records and André
Emmerich papers, Archives of
American Art).
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In the Night
references
Mattison 1985b, illus. n.p. (fig. 129, as
Abstraction).
1945
Oil and sand on paperboard
28⅛ x 36 in. (71.4 x 91.4 cm)
comments
Motherwell and his wife Maria traveled
to Florida with William and Ethel
Baziotes in April 1945, and stayed for
approximately one month. His stated
interest in traveling to Florida was
the experience of “southern light”
(Museum of Modern Art exh. cat.
1965, p. 74). Motherwell painted this
work during that trip, and the word
Florida, which is said to be inscribed
on the verso of the work and which
appears on the back of a black-andwhite photograph of it, may have been
meant as its title.
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: Motherwell
artist’s studio number
p45-5147
present owner
Unknown
provenance
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, 1945; private
collection; unknown owner
group exhibitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
September 1946 (traveling), cat. no. 69;
shown in New York only.
Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, December 1946, cat. no. 111.
Columbia Museum of Art, S.C., 1950
(traveling), cat. no. 26.
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