Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 486
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solo exhibitions
Smith College Museum of Art,
Northampton, Mass., 1963, cat. no. 24.
New Gallery, Charles Hayden Memorial
Library, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, 1963.
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Robert Motherwell, September 1965
(traveling), New York, cat. no. 68, illus.
p. 33; Amsterdam, cat. no. 61, illus.
n.p.; Essen, cat. no. 61; Turin, cat.
no. 61, illus. p. 106 (pl. 46).
group exhibitions
Nassau County Museum of Fine Art,
Roslyn Harbor, N.Y., 1981, cat. no. 8,
color illus. p. 24, erroneously as By the
Sea #18.
references
Willard 1965, illus. sec. Magazine, p. 4;
Flam 1991, color illus. n.p. (pl. 62); Qin
1996, illus. p. 102 (fig. 41); Chalumeau
1998, color illus. p. 43 (pl. 42).
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Beside the Sea No. 19
New Gallery, Charles Hayden Memorial
Library, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, 1963.
1962
Oil on paper
29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm)
Gallery 30, San Mateo, Calif., 1984.
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inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 62
Recto, lower center [painted over]:
[Motherwell]
Verso not seen [“signed ‘Robert
Motherwell,’ ‘beside the sea #19,’ and
‘1962’ on the back of the frame,” per
Rothschild Fine Arts records]
references
Life 1963, illus. sec. NY, p. 7; Arnason
1977b, illus. n.p. (pl. 139); Arnason
1982, illus. p. 147 (pl. 175); San Mateo
Times 1984, illus.
comments
Our reproduction comes from an early
black-and-white photograph of this
work (Juley photo no. 377; j0005162).
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Beside the Sea No. 20
1962
Oil on paper
29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 62
Recto, lower center [painted over]:
[Motherwell]
Recto, lower right: 20
Verso (on backing board) [circled ]:
photo #376 “beside the sea, #20”
R Motherwell 1962 [oil]
present owner
Unknown
present owner
Collection of Kenneth Noland
provenance
New York Hilton, ca. 1963; private
collection; [Christie’s, New York,
November 2, 1984, lot 170, illus.];
unknown owner, 1984
provenance
Kenneth Noland, 1967
solo exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York,
December 1962, cat. no. 37 (on checklist; not in catalogue).
paintings on pa p e r an d p a p e r b o a r d
solo exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York,
December 1962, cat. no. 38 (on checklist; not in catalogue).
references
Arnason 1977b, illus. n.p. (pl. 140);
Arnason 1982, illus. p. 147 (pl. 176).
