Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 455
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The Spanish Night
1958
Oil, shellac, and ink on paperboard
23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: R.M. 58
Verso (on backing board): “the spanIsh
nIGht” 1958 Robert Motherwell
Verso (on backing board) [circled ]:
[oil, shellac + India ink on rag paper
mounted]
present owner
Picker Art Gallery at Colgate
University, Hamilton, N.Y. Gift of
Luther W. Brady, DFA’88, the Luther
W. Brady Collection of 20th Century
Works on Paper
provenance
Harris B. Steinberg, New York, 1959;
[Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New
York, March 4, 1970, lot 57, illus.];
Marlborough Gerson Gallery, Inc.,
New York, 1970; Luther W. Brady,
1974; Picker Art Gallery at Colgate
University, Hamilton, N.Y., 1992
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Group exhIbItIons
Horace Mann School, New York, 1959.
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Still-Life
Drawing
Finch College Museum of Art, New
York, October 1968.
1958
Shellac and graphite on paper
22½ x 28½ in. (57.2 x 72.4 cm)
1958
Shellac and graphite on paper
11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 58
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower center: RM
artIst’s studIo number
d58-336
present owner
Unknown
present owner
Unknown (said to have been destroyed,
1984)
provenance
The artist
Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University,
Hamilton, N.Y., 1988.
references
Monahan 2007, color illus. p. 58.
comments
Motherwell painted this work in
Saint-Jean-de-Luz during the summer
of 1958.
provenance
The artist
comments
This work relates directly to the Madrid
series of drawings that Motherwell made
the night before he left Madrid for SaintJean-de-Luz in June 1958. The shellac was
probably added in Saint-Jean-de-Luz.
A note on the studio card for this
work says that it was destroyed in January
1984. Our reproduction comes from a
Polaroid photograph. We do not know
whether this work still exists in the form
illustrated here.
solo exhIbItIons
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, March
1959, cat. no. 20.
Group exhIbItIons
Henry Gallery, University of
Washington, Seattle, 1967, cat. no. 5,
illus. p. 39.
references
Arnason 1977b, illus. n.p. (pl. 97, in
studio).
comments
Motherwell painted this work in
Saint-Jean-de-Luz during the summer
of 1958. Our reproduction comes from
p a i n tin gs on paper and paperbo ard
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