Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 448
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Amsterdam, cat. no. 29, illus. n.p.;
Essen, cat. no. 29; Turin, cat. no. 29.
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, 1984, cat. no. 40.
Alternative Title: Iberia No. 5
1958
Oil on paperboard
10½ x 13¾ in. (26.7 x 34.9 cm)
group exhibitions
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton,
N.Y., 1987.
references
Galerie im Erker exh. cat. 1971, illus.
p. 13 (in exhibition).
comments
Motherwell painted this work in
Saint-Jean-de-Luz during the summer
of 1958.
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Iberia No. 5A
inscriptions
Recto, upper right, incised: RM
Recto, lower right, incised [painted
over]: [R Motherwell 58]
present owner
Unknown
provenance
Mr. and Mrs. William M. Roth, 1959;
unknown owner; [Sotheby Parke
Bernet, Inc., New York, October 24,
1974, lot 606, illus.]; unknown owner,
1974
1959 solo exhibition at the Sidney
Janis Gallery (see fig. 78 in volume 1)
reveals that this work was shown rotated
180 degrees (i.e., upside down) from its
present orientation, contrary to the
orientation of both the artist’s signatures on the recto. It is unclear from the
exhibition photograph whether the
work had been signed at the time, or
whether Motherwell reoriented the
work and signed it at a later date. The
Janis Gallery records indicate that the
work was sold directly from the show,
but the 1974 Sotheby Parke Bernet
catalogue orients the work as we reproduce it here.
Our reproduction comes from an
early black-and-white photograph of
this work (Juley photo no. 160;
j0004951).
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Iberia No. 6
1958
Oil and Magna on paperboard
10½ x 13½ in. (26.7 x 34.3 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right, incised [painted
over]: [RM]
Verso: Robert Motherwell 1958
Verso [crossed out]: “iberia, no 6.”
[11" x 14"] 1958
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Samuel and Luella Maslon, 1959;
[Sotheby’s, New York, May 16, 2002,
lot 141, illus.]; Hollis Taggart Galleries,
2002; private collection, 2004
solo exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, March
1959, cat. no. 36 (shown upside down).
solo exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, March
1959, cat. no. 49.
comments
Motherwell painted this work in
Saint-Jean-de-Luz during the summer
of 1958. A photograph of his March
group exhibitions
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1960,
cat. no. 106.
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