Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 439
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Pasadena Art Museum, Calif.,
February 1962, cat. no. 32.
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St.-Jean-de-Luz
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Robert Motherwell, September 1965
(traveling), New York, cat. no. 38, illus.
p. 80; Amsterdam, cat. no. 33, illus.
n.p.; Essen, cat. no. 33; Turin, cat.
no. 33, illus. p. 90 (pl. 30/B).
solo exhIbItIons
Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia,
1989, color illus. n.p.
1958
Oil on paperboard
24 x 19¾ in. (61 x 50.2 cm)
Lawrence Rubin/Greenberg Van Doren
Fine Art, New York, 2001, cat. no. 7.
references
Sidney Janis Gallery exh. cat. April
1961, illus. n.p. (in exhibition); Galerie
im Erker exh. cat. 1971, illus. p. 13
(in exhibition); Hobbs 1975b, p. 240;
Arnason 1977b, p. 48, illus. n.p. (pl. 99);
Motherwell in Arnason 1977b, n.p.;
Arnason 1982, pp. 48–49, illus. p. 49
(pl. 39).
comments
Motherwell painted this work in
Saint-Jean-de-Luz during the summer
of 1958. The subject is presumably
Helen Frankenthaler.
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower center, incised:
Robert Motherwell 58
Verso: Robert Motherwell 1958
St-Jean-de-Luz For the Iseman Clan
with love from Bob
Verso (on horizontal strainer): France
present owner
Private collection
provenAnce
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph S. Iseman, 1958;
Knoedler & Company, 1983; Greenberg
Gallery, Saint Louis, 1989; private collection, New York, 2001; Posner Gallery,
Inc., 2003; private collection, 2005
comments
Motherwell incised “St. Jean de Luz”
across the top of this painting, which
was painted there during the summer
of 1958. The dedication on the verso is
to Motherwell’s in-laws, Joseph and
Marjorie Iseman, and their family.
(Marjorie Iseman was Helen
Frankenthaler’s sister; Joseph Iseman
was also Motherwell’s lawyer at the
time.)
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St.-Jean-de-Luz No. 2
Alternative Title: St.-Jean-de-Luz
1958
Oil on paperboard
19½ x 24 in. (49.5 x 61 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right, incised: Robert
Motherwell
present owner
Private collection
provenAnce
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Leiber, ca. 1959;
private collection
solo exhIbItIons
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, March
1959, cat. no. 65, as St.-Jean-de-Luz.
comments
Motherwell painted this work in
Saint-Jean-de-Luz during the summer
p a i n tin gs on paper and paperbo ard
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