Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 452
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(pl. 154); Shea 2002, color illus. p. 67
(pl. 42).
comments
Motherwell painted this work in
Saint-Jean-de-Luz during the summer
of 1958.
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Painting
1958
Oil on paperboard
13 x 16 in. (33 x 40.6 cm)
references
Hobbs 1975b, p. 242.
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comments
Motherwell painted this work in
Saint-Jean-de-Luz during the summer
of 1958.
1958
Oil on paperboard
22 x 30 in. (55.9 x 76.2 cm)
The Nightmare
inscriptions
Recto not signed, not dated
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 58
Verso: Robert Motherwell “Painting”
St-Jean-de-Luz, France 1958
Verso not seen [“Rückseitig auf dem
Rahmen voll signiert, betitelt, datiert
und bezeichnet: oil on rag paper”
(signed, dated, titled, and inscribed on
verso of frame: oil on rag paper), per
Kornfeld und Klipstein 1977]
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Woelffer,
ca. 1959; private collection, Saint Louis;
[Hôtel des encans de Montréal, March
6, 1990, lot 239, illus.]; unknown
owner, 1990; Austin/Desmond Fine
Art, 1991; private collection, ca. 1996
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present owner
Unknown
solo exhibitions
Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, 1974,
cat. no. 10, illus. n.p.
provenance
Robert A. Staub, 1975; [Kornfeld und
Klipstein, Bern, Switzerland, June 8,
1977, lot 625, illus.]; private collection,
1977; private collection, 1978; unknown
owner
group exhibitions
Galerie Claude Lafitte, Montreal, 1989,
color illus. p. 29, erroneously as Iberia.
solo exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, March
1959, cat. no. 26.
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