Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 437
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Two Figures No. 11
1958
Oil on paperboard
8½ x 10½ in. (21.6 x 26.7 cm)
inscriptions
Recto not signed, not dated
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de
Paris, 1977.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo,
1983 (traveling), cat. no. 29, color illus.
p. 73; not shown in Seattle and
Washington, D.C.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, 1984, cat. no. 124.
Verso: 2 figures #11 1958 N.F.S.
artist’s studio number
p58-1246
Knoedler & Company, New York, April
1991, cat. no. 18.
present owner
Private collection
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City,
1991 (traveling), cat. no. 5, color illus.
p. 46.
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2002
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1996,
cat. no. 53.
solo exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, March
1959, cat. no. 64.
Museum of Modern Art, New
York, Robert Motherwell, September
1965 (traveling), New York, cat. no. 41;
Amsterdam, cat. no. 36, illus. n.p.;
Essen, cat. no. 36; Turin, cat. no. 36,
illus. p. 91 (pl. 31/A, erroneously as
Due figure n. II [Two Figures No. II]).
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington,
1999.
references
Claus 1965, illus. p. 6, as Two Figures;
Arnason 1966b, p. 30, erroneously as
Two Figures no. 1; Arnason 1977b, p. 43,
illus. n.p. (pl. 101), referred to in text
and in illus. erroneously as Two Figures
No. 1; Arnason 1982, p. 43, color illus.
p. 132 (pl. 144), referred to in text and
in illus. erroneously as Two Figures
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No. 1; Pleynet 1989b, color illus. p. 101,
erroneously as Two Figures No. 1; Flam
1991, color illus. n.p. (pl. 42); Tyson
1992, sec. D, p. 5; Windrow 1992, color
illus. p. 5; Fundació Antoni Tàpies exh.
cat. 1996, illus. frontispiece (in studio);
Cateforis 2000–2001, p. 8.
comments
Motherwell painted this work in
Saint-Jean-de-Luz during the summer
of 1958.
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Two Figures No. 12
1958
Oil on paperboard
7½ x 9½ in. (19.1 x 24.1 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM
Verso: Robert Motherwell 1958
present owner
Private collection. Courtesy of Locks
Gallery, Philadelphia
provenance
William Rand, 1959; [Christie’s, New
York, February 19, 1998, lot 47, illus.];
private collection, 1998
comments
Motherwell painted this work in
Saint-Jean-de-Luz during the summer
of 1958.
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