Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 495
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Moonrise Beside the Sea
1962
Oil on paper
29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower center, incised:
Motherwell 62
Verso (on backing board) [partially
obscured by strainer]: [Juley photo #350]
Verso (on backing board): Robert
Motherwell for Frank O’Hara oil on
rag paper
artist’s studio number
d62-553
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Frank O’Hara, ca. 1962; Robert
Motherwell, 1966; Dedalus Foundation,
1991; Hackett|Mill, San Francisco,
2002; private collection, 2002
solo exhibitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Robert Motherwell:Works on Paper,
September 1965 (circulating).
references
Arnason 1966b, p. 38, illus. p. 34; Caws
2003, illus. p. 88 (ill. 58).
comments
The dedication on the verso of this
work is to the poet Frank O’Hara
(1926–1966), who was the curator of
Motherwell’s exhibition at the São
Paulo Biennale in 1961 and of his retrospective exhibition at the Museum of
Modern Art in 1965. It was returned to
the artist shortly after O’Hara’s death.
solo exhibitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Robert Motherwell:Works on Paper,
September 1965 (circulating).
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The Abstract Heart
1963
Oil on paper
30 x 22¾ in. (76.2 x 57.8 cm)
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
1967 (circulating), Buenos Aires, cat.
no. 23; Caracas, cat. no. 78; Bogotá,
cat. no. 78; Mexico City, cat. no. 23.
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 63
Verso (on backing board): “the
abstract heart” oil on rag paper
Robert Motherwell 1963
artist’s studio number
p63-558
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
comments
The title of this work refers to Tristan
Tzara’s Cinéma calendrier du coeur
abstrait (Cinema Calendar of the
Abstract Heart), first published in
1920 with illustrations by Jean (Hans)
Arp. The biomorphic shapes allude to
Arp’s illustrations in a general way.
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