Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 496
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Automatic Image No. 1
Automatic Image No. 2
1963
Oil on paper
29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm)
1963
Oil on paper
28⅞ x 22⅞ in. (73.3 x 58.1 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: R. Motherwell 63
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right, incised: RM
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower left, incised: RM
Verso (on backing board): 23" x 30"
Robert Motherwell “les ballets
basques” 1963 oil
artIst’s studIo number
d63-1197
present owner
Private collection
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
provenance
Private collection, 1964; [Sotheby’s,
Chicago, March 19, 2001, lot 803,
illus.]; private collection, 2001
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2007
solo exhIbItIons
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Robert Motherwell:Works on Paper,
September 1965 (circulating).
Group exhIbItIons
Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, 1963, cat. no. 87, illus. n.p.
(pl. 35), as Automatic Image.
solo exhIbItIons
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles,
2005, cat. no. 19.
Art Center in Hargate, St. Paul’s
School, Concord, N.H., 1970, cat.
no. 9.
Cleveland Museum of Art, 1972, cat.
no. 69.
comments
During the summer of 1958, Motherwell
and Helen Frankenthaler attended a
performance of the Oldarra choral
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de
Paris, 1977.
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Les Ballets Basques
1963
Oil on paper
30½ x 23 in. (77.5 x 58.4 cm)
group with Les Ballets Basques de
Biarritz in Saint-Jean-de-Luz. See the
Comments for the related 1963 collage,
Les Ballets Basques de Biarritz (c138).
artIst’s studIo number
d63-557
present owner
Private collection
484
paintings on pa p e r an d p a p e r b o a r d
references
Hobbs 1975b, p. 245, illus. n.p. (pl. 31,
as Untitled ); Arnason 1982, color illus.
p. 152 (pl. 191, in studio).
comments
Our reproduction of this work comes
from the 2001 Sotheby’s auction
catalogue.
