Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 446
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Bull No. 2
1958
Oil on paperboard
14⅜ x 22½ in. (36.6 x 57.2 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM
Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia,
1989 (not in catalogue).
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Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, 1992, color
illus. p. 32.
1958
Oil on paperboard
13 x 16 in. (33 x 40.6 cm)
comments
Motherwell painted this work in
Saint-Jean-de-Luz during the summer
of 1958.
present owner
Private collection. Courtesy of Locks
Gallery, Philadelphia
provenance
Everett Ellin Gallery; [Parke-Bernet
Galleries, Inc., New York, October 9,
1963, lot 89, illus.]; private collection,
1963; [Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc.,
New York, January 27, 1966, lot 27];
unknown owner, 1966; private collection, 1972; [Sotheby’s, New York,
May 3, 1988, lot 130, illus.]; private
collection, 1988; private collection,
1989; [Christie’s, New York, November
8, 1989, lot 289, illus.]; private collection, 1989
solo exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, March
1959, cat. no. 51.
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paintings on p a p e r an d p a p e r b o a r d
Bull No. 3
inscriptions
None visible in photograph
present owner
Unknown
provenance
The artist
solo exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, March
1959, cat. no. 52.
comments
Motherwell painted the first version of
this work in Saint-Jean-de-Luz during
the summer of 1958, and it was photographed that fall (Juley photo no. 136;
j0004927). The work was revised by
extending the blacks along the right
side some time before March 1959,
when it was exhibited at the Sidney
Janis Gallery. Since the present whereabouts of this work are unknown, it is
not possible to say whether or not it
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may have been subsequently revised, as
Bull No. 1 (w60) had been, following
the Janis Gallery exhibition.
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).
