Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 461
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solo exhIbItIons
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Robert Motherwell, September 1965
(traveling), New York, cat. no. 39,
illus. p. 62; Amsterdam, cat. no. 34,
illus. n.p.; Essen, cat. no. 34; Turin,
cat. no. 34, illus. p. 86 (pl. 26).
references
Bowen 1966, illus. p. 132.
comments
Our reproduction comes from an
early black-and-white photograph of
this work (Juley photo no. 256;
j0005040). A print of this photograph
in the Dedalus Foundation Archives is
labeled “Oil on paper with incision.”
This same note is also said to be on a
label attached to the backing board of
the work. And indeed there is a deep
semicircular incision cut into the white
paperboard support, which runs under
the black forms.
The inscription on the verso of this
work is said to include a dedication by
Motherwell to Bernard and Rebecca
Reis. Bernard Reis was Motherwell’s
accountant.
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Figuration, with Black and
Orange
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Smith College Museum of Art,
Northampton, Mass., 1963, cat. no. 14,
as Figuration in Black and Orange,
Number 2.
Alternative Title: Figuration with Black
and Orange No. 2
1959–60
Oil and crayon on paper
42 x 35¾ in. (106.7 x 90.8 cm)
New Gallery, Charles Hayden Memorial
Library, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, 1963, as
Figuration, with Black and Orange #2.
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right, incised [painted
over]: [RM 59]
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Robert Motherwell:Works on Paper,
September 1965 (circulating), as
Figuration with Orange and Black #2.
Recto, lower right, incised: RM
Recto, lower right, incised [painted
over]: [RM]
artIst’s studIo number
p59-536
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
solo exhIbItIons
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, April
1961, cat. no. 23.
which was cut down on the right side
when it was reworked in 1960. Its composition is similar to a large untitled
painting on canvas (p214).
This work has often been confused
with Figuration, with Black and Orange
No. 2 (w97).
Group exhIbItIons
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford,
Conn., 1962, cat. no. 90.
Marlborough Gallery, New York, 2000,
cat. no. 88, color illus. p. 24, erroneously as Figuration with Orange and
Black No. 2.
references
Motherwell 1961, color illus. p. 32, as
Figuration with Orange and Black.
comments
This painting was originally done on a
horizontal sheet approximately 40 x 48
inches (Juley photo no. 97; j0004889),
p a i n tin gs on paper and paperbo ard
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