Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 442
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Our reproduction of this work
has been extracted from an installation
photograph of Motherwell’s March
1959 exhibition at the Sidney Janis
Gallery (see fig. 78 in volume 1).
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Frontier No. 4
1958
Oil and alkyd on paperboard
15 x 18 in. (38.1 x 45.7 cm)
inscriptions
Recto not signed, not dated
artist’s studio number
p58-3272
present owner
Private collection. Courtesy Locks
Gallery, Philadelphia
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2000
solo exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, March
1959, cat. no. 44.
430
paintings on pa p e r an d p a p e r b o a r d
comments
Motherwell painted this work in SaintJean-de-Luz during the summer of
1958. It later served as a model for the
initial composition of his 1966 painting
New England Elegy Mural (Second
Variation) (p367), and for the 1984
print At the Edge (Engberg and Banach
2003, no. 345).
