Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 449
w67
references
Art Market Report 2003b, color illus.
p. 20.
comments
Motherwell painted this work in
Saint-Jean-de-Luz during the summer
of 1958.
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Iberia No. 11
Alternative Title: Bull No. 7
1958
Oil on paperboard
10⅜ x 13¾ in. (26.4 x 34.9 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto not signed, not dated
ArtIst’s studIo number
p58-332
present owner
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Museum purchase and gift of the
Dedalus Foundation
provenAnce
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Museum of
Fine Arts, Houston, 2005
solo exhIbItIons
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, March
1959, cat. no. 56, as Bull #7.
Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo,
Brazil, 1961, cat. no. 16.
Pasadena Art Museum, Calif.,
February 1962, cat. no. 26.
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Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Robert Motherwell:Works on Paper,
September 1965 (circulating), erroneously as Iberia No. II; shown in
Houston only.
William Benton Museum of Art,
University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1979,
cat. no. 13 (catalogue).
Two other works initially done in
1958 as Bull series paintings were
revised around 1961 and retitled as
Iberia paintings: the Bull series numbers 6 and 8 became, respectively,
Iberia No. 15 and Iberia No. 17 (see w69
and w70).
Knoedler & Company, New York, April
1991, cat. no. 24.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1996,
cat. no. 54.
Group exhIbItIons
Joseph Helman Gallery, New York,
September 2000.
comments
Motherwell painted this work in
Saint-Jean-de-Luz during the summer
of 1958. A verso inscription (not in
Motherwell’s hand) indicates that it was
originally given the number 7 in the
Bull series. By the time it was exhibited
in São Paulo in the fall of 1961, however, it had been retitled Iberia No. 11
even though it was not reworked.
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