Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 474
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Before the Italian
Mediterranean
Alternative Title: Structure before the
Italian Mediterranean
1961
Oil on paper
51¾ x 42½ in. (131.4 x 108 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: R Motherwell 61
artIst’s studIo number
d61-697
present owner
La Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango
provenance
Philippe Dotremont, Brussels, ca. 1962;
[Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York,
April 14, 1965, lot 32, illus.]; Clinton
Wilder, 1965; Robert Motherwell, 1965;
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Fernando
Botero, 1999; La Biblioteca Luis Angel
Arango, ca. 2000
462
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solo exhIbItIons
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Robert Motherwell:Works on Paper,
September 1965 (circulating), as
Structure Before the Italian
Mediterranean.
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Sea, Sky, Sand
Untitled
1961
Oil on paper
29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm)
1961
Oil on paper
29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm)
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de
Paris, 1977.
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper center: R Motherwell 61
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower center: R Motherwell 61
Marlborough Gallery, New York, 1999,
cat. no. 5, color illus. p. 13.
Verso (on backing board): “sea, sky,
sand” Robert Motherwell 1961
oil on 100% rag paper
artIst’s studIo number
d61-543
references
Holmes 1966, sec. “Zest,” p. 37,
as Structure Before the Italian
Mediterranean.
Verso (on backing board): Juley
photo #372
comments
This painting on paper was bought at
auction by the theatrical producer
Clinton Wilder in 1965, but delivered
to Motherwell by the auction house,
as per a letter dated May 11, 1965,
from Motherwell to Parke-Bernet
Galleries, Inc.
paintings on p a p e r an d p a p e r b o a r d
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Robert Motherwell:Works on Paper,
September 1965 (circulating).
present owner
The Columbus Museum, Ga. Museum
purchase made possible by Etta Dykes
Blackmon, in memory of Natilu
McKenney Dykes; Annie Ruth Baker
Davis; Gail B. Greenblatt; Rebecca H.
King; Edith Landrum; Marjorie
Newman; Laura P. Porter, in memory
of Mary F. Passailaigue; Thelma M.
Robinson; Miriam Tidwell; special
assistance from the Ella E. Kirven
Charitable Lead Trust for Acquisitions;
and gift of the Dedalus Foundation,
2000.13.1
references
Rosenberg 1963, p. 72, as Sea, Sky and
Sand; Rosenberg 1964, p. 101.
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Columbus
Museum, Ga., 2000
present owner
Private collection, California
provenance
Private collection, California, 1967
solo exhIbItIons
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York,
December 1962, cat. no. 10, illus. n.p.
