Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 487
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On August 16, 1967, Motherwell traded
this work with Kenneth Noland in
exchange for Hub, a 1961 acrylic painting on canvas that measures 84 inches
square.
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Beside the Sea No. 21
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: 21
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Private collection, ca. 1963; unknown
owner, ca. 1969; Marisa del Re Gallery,
Inc.; Greenberg Gallery, Saint Louis,
1982; [Christie’s, New York, November
11, 1982, lot 108, illus.]; Isabella del
Frate Rayburn, 1982; [Sotheby’s, New
York, May 5, 1994, lot 108, illus. (not
sold)]; [Christie’s, New York, November
15, 1995, lot 195, illus.]; private collection, 1995
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solo exhIbItIons
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York,
December 1962, cat. no. 35 (on checklist; not in catalogue).
New Gallery, Charles Hayden Memorial
Library, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, 1963.
Group exhIbItIons
Marisa del Re Gallery, New York,
March 1982.
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Beside the Sea No. 22
1962
Oil on paper
29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 62
Recto, lower center [partially painted
over]: [Motherwell]
references
Arnason 1977b, illus. n.p. (pl. 141);
Arnason 1982, illus. p. 147 (pl. 177).
Recto, lower right: 22
Verso not seen [“signed on reverse
with title and photography notes,” per
Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery,
Columbia University, exh. cat., 1997]
artIst’s studIo number
d62-548
present owner
Collection of Skip Paul and Van
Fletcher, Beverly Hills, Calif.
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Skip Paul
and Van Fletcher, Beverly Hills, Calif.,
1997
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