Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 440
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of 1958, and the text “St Jean de Luz”
is incised into the composition.
Our reproduction comes from an
early black-and-white photograph of
this work (Juley photo no. 459;
j0005246).
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In Black and White with
Yellow Ochre
1958
Oil on paperboard
24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right, incised: RM 58
Verso not seen [“Verso: signed Robert
Motherwell 1958 ‘In Black + White
with Yellow Ochre’ St. Jean-de-Luz
France. On horizontal stretcher bar:
‘For Joanne + Gifford Phillips N.Y.
1958,’ ” per present owner]
present owner
Collection of Joann and Gifford
Phillips
provenance
Joann and Gifford Phillips, 1958
solo exhibitions
Pasadena Art Museum, Calif.,
February 1962, cat. no. 36, as Untitled.
Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, 1974,
cat. no. 17, illus. n.p.
428
paintings on pa p e r an d p a p e r b o a r d
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group exhibitions
UCLA Art Galleries, Los Angeles,
1962, cat. no. 73.
comments
Motherwell painted this work in
Saint-Jean-de-Luz during the summer
of 1958.
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Frontier No. 1
1958
Oil and alkyd on paperboard
8½ x 10½ in. (21.6 x 26.7 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right, incised: RM
present owner
Yale University Art Gallery. Gift of the
artist
provenance
Yale University Art Gallery, 1963
solo exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, March
1959, cat. no. 41.
references
O’Brien 1962, illus. sec. Magazine,
pt. 1, p. 52 (installation view); Yale
University Art Gallery Bulletin 1964,
p. 48; Arnason 1977b, p. 49, illus. n.p.
(pl. 105); Terenzio 1979, illus. p. 5;
Arnason 1982, p. 49, illus. p. 133
(pl. 145); Qin 1996, p. 17, illus. p. 72
(fig. 6).
