Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 450
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Pasadena Art Museum, Calif.,
February 1962, cat. no. 27.
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Alternative Title: Bull No. 6
1958/ca. 1961
Oil on paperboard
10½ x 13 in. (26.7 x 33 cm)
Baltimore Museum of Art, 2006.
Alternative Title: Bull No. 8
1958/ca. 1961
Oil on paperboard
10⅝ x 13⅝ in. (27 x 34.6 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right, incised [painted
over]: [RM]
references
Arnason 1977b, illus. n.p. (pl. 112);
Arnason 1982, illus. p. 137 (pl. 152).
Verso: Robert Motherwell
comments
Motherwell painted an early version of
this work during the summer of 1958 in
Saint-Jean-de-Luz, and it was shown
under its original title, Bull No. 6, at his
solo exhibition at the Sidney Janis
Gallery in March 1959 (see fig. 78 in
volume 1). Following this exhibition,
Motherwell continued to revise the picture, extending the black paint on the
left side and adjusting the contours of
the black paint in the lower left corner.
It was completed and retitled Iberia
No. 15 shortly before being sent to São
Paulo in the fall of 1961.
Iberia No. 15
present owner
The Baltimore Museum of Art. Samuel
and Tobie Miller Memorial Collection,
donated by Richard and Marshall
Miller, bma 1965.37.3
provenance
Richard and Marshall Miller, 1963;
Baltimore Museum of Art, 1965
solo exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, March
1959, cat. no. 55 (shown in early state),
as Bull #6.
Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo,
Brazil, 1961, cat. no. 17.
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group exhibitions
University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, 1963.
paintings on p a p e r an d p a p e r b o a r d
Iberia No. 17
inscriptions
Recto not signed, not dated
artist’s studio number
p58-333
present owner
Collection Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis. Gift of Margaret and
Angus Wurtele and the Dedalus
Foundation, 1995
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis, 1995
solo exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, March
1959, cat. no. 57 (shown in early state),
as Bull #8.
William Benton Museum of Art,
University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1979,
cat. no. 10 (brochure); cat. no. 14
(catalogue).
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1996,
cat. no. 23.
Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona,
1996 (traveling), cat. no. 26, cover color
illus. (detail), color illus. p. 123.
Museo Dolores Olmedo Patiño,
Mexico City, 2008, color illus. p. 44.
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art,
Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.,
2009, cat. no. 5.
group exhibitions
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2005.
references
Museum of Modern Art, Robert
Motherwell, exh. cat. September 1965,
cover illus. (in studio); Galerie im Erker
exh. cat. 1971, illus. p. 11 (in studio);
Lynton 1997, color illus. p. 41; Lynton
2001, color illus. p. 178.
comments
Motherwell painted an early version of
this work during the summer of 1958 in
Saint-Jean-de-Luz. It had areas of white
along both sides of the composition,
and was shown at Motherwell’s solo
exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery in
