Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 489
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Beside the Sea No. 24
1962
Acrylic on paper
28⅞ x 23 in. (73.3 x 58.4 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 62
Recto, lower right: 24
artIst’s studIo number
p62-549
present owner
Collection of the Modern Art Museum
of Fort Worth. Museum purchase and
gift of the artist
provenance
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,
1985
solo exhIbItIons
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York,
December 1962, cat. no. 21, illus. n.p.
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Robert Motherwell, September 1965
(traveling), New York, cat. no. 70, illus.
p. 33.
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Beside the Sea No. 25
Beside the Sea No. 26
1962
Oil and acrylic on paper
29 x 22¾ in. (73.7 x 57.8 cm)
1962
Acrylic on paper
29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm)
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, 1979,
cat. no. 31, illus. n.p.; illus. n.p. (in
exhibition).
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 62
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 62
Fort Worth Art Museum, September
1985, cat. no. 1, color illus. p. 7.
present owner
Unknown
Recto, lower right: 26
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,
1993.
provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Barry R. Peril, 1965; private collection, 1975; unknown owner
William Benton Museum of Art,
University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1979,
cat. no. 17 (brochure); cat. no. 20 (catalogue), illus. p. 47 (in exhibition), illus.
p. 48 (in exhibition), illus. p. 87.
references
Robertson 1966a, illus. p. 93, as Beside
the sea; Wohl 1973, illus. p. 44; Arnason
1977b, illus. n.p. (pl. 144); Devade
1977, illus. p. 23; Millet 1977, illus.
pp. 6–7; Arnason 1982, illus. p. 149
(pl. 181); Bonet 1983, illus. p. 137; Fort
Worth Art Museum Calendar 1985b,
p. 2, color illus. p. 3; Kutner 1985a,
sec. C, p. 3, illus. sec. C, p. 1; Sewell
1985, p. 21; Pleynet 1989b, color illus.
p. 49, color illus. p. 106; Poesia y
Poética 1990, illus. p. 20; Ross 1990,
illus. p. 108; Harrison 1991, illus. p. 98;
Caws 1996b, illus. p. 151.
solo exhIbItIons
Smith College Museum of Art,
Northampton, Mass., 1963, cat. no. 25.
artIst’s studIo number
d62-550
present owner
Renate Ponsold Motherwell
provenance
Renate Ponsold Motherwell, 1991
solo exhIbItIons
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York,
December 1962, cat. no. 42 (on checklist; not in catalogue).
Group exhIbItIons
Institute of Contemporary Art,
University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, 1966.
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles,
1975.
New Gallery, Charles Hayden Memorial
Library, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, 1963.
references
Arnason 1966b, illus. p. 34; Jacobs
1974, illus. sec. E, p. 2 (in exhibition).
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