Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 483
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Amsterdam, cat. no. 60, illus. n.p.;
Essen, cat. no. 60; Turin, cat. no. 60,
illus. p. 105 (pl. 45/B).
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Beside the Sea No. 10
Beside the Sea No. 11
Beside the Sea No. 12
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)
1962
Oil on paper
28¾ x 22¾ in. (73 x 57.8 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower center: Motherwell
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 62 11
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 62
Recto, upper right: 10
present owner
Unknown
Recto, lower center: Motherwell
Recto, lower right: 12
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
May 1969.
provenance
Solomon Byron Smith, ca. 1963;
unknown owner
Verso (on backing board) [circled ]:
Photo #395 [oil] N.F.S. “Beside the
Sea, #12” Robert Motherwell 1962
references
Baro 1966b, p. 41, illus. p. 40.
solo exhIbItIons
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York,
December 1962, cat. no. 34 (on checklist; not in catalogue).
present owner
Private collection
Verso not seen [“signed again, inscribed
with title and dedication, and dated
1962 on the cardboard backing,” per
Christie’s 1983]
present owner
Unknown
provenance
Unknown owner, ca. 1962; [Christie’s,
New York, May 11, 1983, lot 237, illus.];
unknown owner, 1983
solo exhIbItIons
Smith College Museum of Art,
Northampton, Mass., 1963, cat. no. 22.
comments
Our reproduction comes from an early
black-and-white photograph of this
work (Juley photo no. 357; j0005141).
Group exhIbItIons
Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn
Harbor, N.Y., May 1993, illus. p. 92.
Group exhIbItIons
Art Institute of Chicago, January 1963,
cat. no. 60.
Centre Culturel Américain, Paris, 1963,
cat. no. 21.
provenance
Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1965; private
collection, after 1969; private collection,
2008
references
Arnason 1977b, illus. n.p. (pl. 138);
Arnason 1982, illus. p. 147 (pl. 174).
solo exhIbItIons
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York,
December 1962, cat. no. 41 (on checklist; not in catalogue).
comments
Our reproduction comes from an early
black-and-white photograph of this
work (Juley photo no. 347; j0005131).
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Robert Motherwell, September 1965
(traveling), New York, cat. no. 67;
p a i n tin gs on paper and paperbo ard
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