Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 438
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Painting, with Two Figures
Untitled
Untitled–A
Pink Nude with Bowed Head
1958
Oil and Magna on paperboard
7½ x 9½ in. (19.1 x 24.1 cm)
1958
Oil on paperboard
10½ x 13½ in. (26.7 x 34.3 cm)
1958
Oil on paperboard
10½ x 13½ in. (26.7 x 34.3 cm)
1958
Oil, alkyd, and graphite on paperboard
24 x 19½ in. (61 x 49.5 cm)
inscriptions
Recto not signed, not dated
inscriptions
Recto not signed, not dated
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 58
Verso [written over]: “painting, with
[the] two figures” 1958 Robert
Motherwell St-Jean-de-Luz, France
Verso [partially torn off]: [Ro]bert
Motherwell 1958
present owner
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,
Kansas City, Mo. Gift of William Inge,
62-63
inscriptions
Recto, lower left, incised: R.
Motherwell
present owner
Collection of Clifford Ross
provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ross, 1959; Gloria
Ross, ca. 1970; Clifford Ross, 1998
references
Arnason 1977b, illus. n.p. (pl. 103);
Arnason 1982, p. 49, illus. p. 50
(pl. 43).
comments
Motherwell painted this work in
Saint-Jean-de-Luz during the summer
of 1958.
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present owner
The UBS Art Collection
provenance
Gimpel Fils, 1959; private collection,
1969; [Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New
York, May 2, 1985, lot 1, illus.]; UBS
Art Collection, 1985
solo exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, March
1959, cat. no. 66.
group exhibitions
Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch
College, New York, 1997.
comments
Motherwell painted this work in
Saint-Jean-de-Luz during the summer
of 1958.
paintings on p a p e r an d p a p e r b o a r d
Verso: Robert Motherwell 1958
“pink nude with bowed head”
St-Jean-de-Luz, France oil on panel
provenance
William Inge, 1959; Nelson-Atkins
Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo.,
1962
Verso (on horizontal strainer) [circled ]:
[N.F.S.]
solo exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, March
1959, cat. no. 67.
present owner
Helen Frankenthaler
comments
Motherwell painted this work in
Saint-Jean-de-Luz during the summer
of 1958.
artist’s studio number
p58-5131
provenance
Helen Frankenthaler, ca. 1958
solo exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, March
1959, cat. no. 22.
New Gallery, Bennington College, Vt.,
1959.
Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo,
Brazil, 1961, cat. no. 22.
