Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 424
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[ Untitled (Pink Figure)]
The Ark
Ca. 1951
Oil and crayon on paper
26 x 18 in. (66 x 45.7 cm)
1951
Oil and graphite on paperboard
20½ x 29¾ in. (52.1 x 75.6 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: R.M.
inscriptions
Recto not signed, not dated
artist’s studio number
d50-2350
artist’s studio number
p51-1108; p51-1108b
present owner
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia. Gift of the Dedalus
Foundation and John Lambert Fund,
1994.6.2
present owner
The Jewish Museum, New York.
Museum purchase with funds provided
by Philip and Lynn Straus in memory
of Joy Ungerleider-Mayerson and gift
of the Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991;
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, 1994
comments
The figurative element in this work is
closely related to a similar motif in
Interior with Nude (p121) and other
paintings done around 1951.
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comments
This work is related to the mural that
Motherwell was commissioned to paint
for the main entry of the Congregation
B’nai Israel synagogue in Millburn,
New Jersey. Regarding the iconography
of the mural, see the Comments for
Wall of the Temple (p114); the mural was
first painted in a blue harmony similar
to the colors in this work.
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Ulysses
1947–51
Oil on paperboard
37½ x 29½ in. (95.3 x 74.9 cm)
inscriptions
Recto not signed, not dated
Verso: “Ulysses” (oil) Robert
Motherwell 1947–51
present owner
Montclair Art Museum. Museum purchase; National Endowment for the
Arts Museum Purchase Plan, 1974.8
solo exhibitions
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York,
April 1952, cat. no. 5.
provenance
Unknown owner, ca. 1951; [ParkeBernet Galleries, Inc., New York,
March 16, 1960, lot 94, illus.]; unknown
owner, 1960; Robert Dain; [Sotheby
Parke Bernet, Inc., Los Angeles,
February 27, 1974, lot 383, illus.];
Montclair Art Museum, N.J., 1974
group exhibitions
Parish House, Church of the Ascension,
New York, 1953.
group exhibitions
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum,
1994, cat. no. 115, color illus. p. 163.
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Jewish
Museum, New York, 1995
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