Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 447
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Bull No. 4
Bull No. 5
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Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea,
Milan, 1989, cat. no. 19.
1958
Oil and Magna on paperboard
10⅝ x 13¾ in. (27 x 34.9 cm)
1958
Oil on paperboard
14¾ x 22½ in. (37.5 x 57.2 cm)
references
Arnason 1977b, illus. n.p. (pl. 115);
Arnason 1982, illus. p. 137 (pl. 155).
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 58
artist’s studio number
p58-23
artist’s studio number
p58-334
comments
Motherwell painted this work in
Saint-Jean-de-Luz during the summer
of 1958.
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
present owner
Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation
for Art, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
solo exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, March
1959, cat. no. 53.
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington,
1999.
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen,
Germany, 2004, color illus. p. 41.
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, May
2005, cat. no. 4.
comments
Motherwell painted this work in
Saint-Jean-de-Luz during the summer
of 1958.
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Maxine and
Stuart Frankel Foundation for Art,
Bloomfield Hills, Mich., 2006
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Iberia No. 5
Alternative Title: Black Painting
1958
Oil and Magna on paperboard
24¼ x 19½ in. (61.6 x 49.5 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left, incised [painted over]:
[RM]
Recto, lower left, incised: R.
Motherwell
Verso: Robert Motherwell St-Jean-de
Luz, France 1958
Verso: “iberia, no. 5”
present owner
Collection of Clifford Ross
solo exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, March
1959, cat. no. 54.
provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ross, 1959; Gloria
Ross, 1970; Clifford Ross, 1998
Art Museum, Princeton University,
N.J., 1973, cat. no. 50.
solo exhibitions
New Gallery, Bennington College, Vt.,
1959, cat. no. 26, as Black Painting.
William Benton Museum of Art,
University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1979,
cat. no. 13 (brochure); cat. no. 9 (catalogue), illus. p. 48 (in exhibition), color
illus. p. 90 (in exhibition), illus. p. 140.
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Robert Motherwell, September 1965
(traveling), New York, cat. no. 34;
p a i n tin gs on paper and paperbo ard
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