Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 436
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Arca, Chiesa di San Marco, Vercelli,
Italy, 2008, cat. no. 55, color illus.
p. 141.
references
Ashton 1959a, illus. p. 6; S[andler]
1959, illus. p. 10; Arnason 1977b, illus.
n.p. (pl. 102).
comments
Motherwell painted this work in SaintJean-de-Luz during the summer of 1958.
This painting and another work from
the series, Two Figures No. 10 (w39),
both appear in a photograph of his solo
exhibition at Bennington College in
1959 (see fig. 211 in volume 1). But in
the Bennington catalogue there is only
a single entry for an unnumbered Two
Figures work (cat. no. 29), which is
erroneously dated 1959.
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Two Figures No. 9
Two Figures No. 10
1958
Oil on paperboard
8½ x 10½ in. (21.6 x 26.7 cm)
1958
Oil on paperboard
8⅝ x 10⅝ in. (21.9 x 27 cm)
inscriptions
Recto not signed, not dated
inscriptions
Recto not signed, not dated
Verso: Robert Motherwell 1958
St-Jean-de-Luz, France
Verso: Robert Motherwell
present owner
Private collection, New York
provenance
Samuel and Luella Maslon, 1959;
[Sotheby’s, New York, May 16, 2002,
lot 143, illus.]; private collection, New
York, 2002
solo exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, March
1959, cat. no. 60.
group exhibitions
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1960, cat.
no. 105.
comments
Motherwell painted this work in
Saint-Jean-de-Luz during the summer
of 1958.
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paintings on p a p e r an d p a p e r b o a r d
present owner
Dr. and Mrs. Jack Kavanaugh
provenance
Dore and Adja Yunkers, New York,
1958; Dore Ashton, 1983; private
collection, 1991; Dr. and Mrs. Jack
Kavanaugh, 2000
solo exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, March
1959, cat. no. 63.
New Gallery, Bennington College, Vt.,
1959, cat. no. [29], as [Two Figures].
group exhibitions
Elkon Gallery, New York, 1990.
references
Arnason 1977b, illus. n.p. (pl. 104, as
Untitled [Painting with Two Figures]).
comments
Motherwell painted this work in
Saint-Jean-de-Luz during the summer
of 1958.
This painting and another work
from the Two Figures series, Two
Figures No. 8 (w37), both appear in a
photograph of Motherwell’s solo exhibition at Bennington College in 1959
(see fig. 211 in volume 1). But in the
Bennington catalogue there is only a
single entry for an unnumbered Two
Figures work (cat. no. 29), which is
erroneously dated 1959.
