Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 498
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Automatic Image No. 6
1963
Oil on paper
29 x 22¾ in. (73.7 x 57.8 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right, incised: RM
Verso (on backing board): 29" x 23"
Robert Motherwell 1963 “automatIc
ImaGe #6” oIl
artIst’s studIo number
d63-355
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
references
Bearden and Holty 1969, illus. p. 200;
Arnason 1982, color illus. p. 152
(pl. 191, in studio, in early state).
comments
In a photograph of Motherwell’s studio
taken during the summer of 1963, this
work is visible in an early state; the
composition is already set, but it has an
orange ground (see Arnason 1982,
p. 152, pl. 191). Motherwell repainted
the ground in blue sometime after that
photograph was taken. Automatic Image
No. 4 (w167), another work from the
same series that appears in this same
studio photograph, underwent a similar
revision.
solo exhIbItIons
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de
Paris, 1977.
Galleria d’Arte il Gabbiano, Rome,
2006, cat. no. 9, color illus. p. 21.
Galleria d’Arte il Gabbiano, Rome,
2008, cat. no. 13, color illus. p. 31.
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paintings on p a p e r an d p a p e r b o a r d
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In Orange and Blue
Alternative Title: In Vermilion Red
1963
Oil on paper
29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right, incised: RM
Verso not seen [“signed and dated 1963
on the reverse,” per Sotheby’s 1986]
present owner
Unknown
provenance
Private collection, before 1967;
[Kornfeld und Klipstein, Bern,
Switzerland, June 15, 1972, lot 823];
unknown owner; [Sotheby Parke
Bernet, Inc., New York, November 11,
1986, lot 141, illus.]; unknown owner,
1986
solo exhIbItIons
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
1967 (circulating), Buenos Aires, cat.
no. 27; Caracas, cat. no. 82; Bogotá,
cat. no. 82; Mexico City, cat. no. 27.
references
Arnason 1977b, p. 65, as In Vermilion
Red; Arnason 1982, p. 65, as In Vermilion
Red.
comments
Our reproduction of this work comes
from the 1986 Sotheby Parke Bernet
auction catalogue.
