Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 506
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Untitled
Africa No. 3
Alternative Title: [Untitled (ochre, blue)]
1964
Oil on paperboard
22 x 30 in. (55.9 x 76.2 cm)
Alternative Title: Acrobatic Wave
1964
Acrylic on paperboard
30 x 53 in. (76.2 x 134.6 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower left: RM
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left: R.M. 64
Recto, upper right, incised [painted
over]: [RM]
Verso (on backing board): Africa #3
1964
artIst’s studIo number
d64-542
artIst’s studIo number
p64-1583
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
solo exhIbItIons
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Robert Motherwell:Works on Paper,
September 1965 (circulating), as
Acrobatic Wave.
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
1967 (circulating), Buenos Aires, cat.
no. 25, illus. n.p.; Caracas, cat. no. 80;
Bogotá, cat. no. 80; Mexico City, cat.
494
paintings on p a p e r an d p a p e r b o a r d
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no. 25; as Ola acrobática (Acrobatic
Wave).
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Art Center in Hargate, St. Paul’s
School, Concord, N.H., 1970, cat.
no. 6, illus. n.p. (in exhibition).
1965/after 1975
Oil on paperboard
30 x 53 in. (76.2 x 134.6 cm)
Group exhIbItIons
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,
Richmond, 1969.
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower left, incised: RM 65
comments
Originally titled Acrobatic Wave, this
work was retitled to become part of
the Africa series when it was consigned
to the Marlborough-Gerson Gallery in
1969 (see the Comments for p338). A
painting on canvas from 1975–76 shares
the title Africa No. 3 (p829).
The Figure 4 on Black
artIst’s studIo number
d65-702
present owner
Renate Ponsold Motherwell
provenance
Renate Ponsold Motherwell, 1991
solo exhIbItIons
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Robert Motherwell:Works on Paper,
September 1965 (circulating) (shown
in early state).
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
1967 (circulating), Buenos Aires, cat.
no. 28; Caracas, cat. no. 83; Bogotá,
cat. no. 83; Mexico City, cat. no. 28;
shown in early state.
