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Beside the Sea No. 5
Beside the Sea No. 6
1962
Oil on paper
29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm)
1962
Oil on paper
29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower center: Motherwell
inscriptions
Recto, lower center: Motherwell
Recto, lower right: 5
Recto, lower right: 6
artist’s studio number
d62-547
Verso (on backing board) [set in square]:
[beside the sea, #6]
present owner
Smith College Museum of Art,
Northampton, Mass. Purchased with
the gift of Bonnie Johnson Sacerdote,
class of 1964, and Louisa Stude
Sarofim, class of 1958, and the Dedalus
Foundation
Verso (on backing board) [circled ]:
[oil] 1962 Robert Motherwell Juley
photo #359
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Smith
College Museum of Art, Northampton,
Mass., 1995
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Private collection, ca. 1962
solo exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York,
December 1962, cat. no. 19,
illus. n.p.
solo exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York,
December 1962, cat. no. 40 (on checklist; not in catalogue).
Lawrence Rubin/Greenberg Van
Doren Fine Art, New York, 2001,
cat. no. 5.
Smith College Museum of Art,
Northampton, Mass., 1996.
group exhibitions
Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New
York, 2006.
Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery,
Columbia University, New York, 1997
(traveling), cat. no. V.1, color illus.
p. 127 (pl. 53); shown in New York only.
references
Arnason 1977b, illus. n.p. (pl. 137);
Arnason 1982, illus. p. 147 (pl. 173).
group exhibitions
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, September 1964 (traveling),
cat. no. 80.
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown,
Mass., 1993.
references
Sandler 1970, p. 209, illus. p. 209
(fig. 16-9); Arnason 1977b, color illus.
n.p. (pl. 134); Motherwell in Arnason
1977b, n.p.; Arnason 1982, color illus.
p. 148 (pl. 179); Kingsley 1982, color
illus. p. 48; Meewis 1983, p. 200; Fort
Worth Art Museum exh. cat. 1985, illus.
p. 6; Enright 1989, illus. p. 11; Pleynet
1989b, color illus. p. 107; Flam 1991,
color illus. n.p. (pl. 60); Terenzio 1992b,
color illus. n.p.; Myers 1993, illus. sec.
2, p. 8, as Beside the Sea; Taylor 1993,
p. 20, color illus. p. 22 (fig. 4); Qin
1996, illus. p. 102 (fig. 41, erroneously
as Beside the Sea No. 22); Smith College
Museum of Art Newsletter and Calendar
1996, n.p., color illus. n.p.; Chalumeau
1998, color illus. p. 42 (pl. 40).
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paintings on p a p e r an d p a p e r b o a r d
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Beside the Sea No. 8
1962
Oil on paper
28⅞ x 22⅞ in. (73.3 x 58.1 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower center [partially painted
over]: [Motherwell]
Recto, lower right: 8
Verso [circled ]: photo #378 [oil]
“Beside the Sea, #8” Robert
Motherwell 1962
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, 1965;
private collection; private collection
solo exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York,
December 1962, cat. no. 31 (on checklist; not in catalogue).
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Robert Motherwell, September 1965
(traveling), New York, cat. no. 66, illus.
p. 32; Amsterdam, cat. no. 59, illus.
n.p.; Essen, cat. no. 59; Turin, cat.
no. 59, illus. p. 105 (pl. 45/A).
group exhibitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
May 1969.
