Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 507
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comments
An early version of this work, painted in
1965, was exhibited a number of times
between 1965 and 1970. A photograph
of the artist’s studio shows it still in
that early form as late as April 1975.
Motherwell subsequently revised the
work, extending the black painted areas
to the upper areas of the composition.
Our reproduction comes from a
Polaroid photograph of this painting on
the storage racks in Motherwell’s
Greenwich studio.
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In Ochre with Black
Covering Black
Alternative Title: In Black with Ochre
Ca. 1965
Acrylic on paperboard
30 x 53 in. (76.2 x 134.6 cm)
1965
Acrylic on paperboard
26⅞ x 39½ in. (68.3 x 100.3 cm)
The Figure 4 on an Orange
Ground
inscriptions
Recto, upper left, incised: RM
Recto, lower left, incised: RM
present owner
Unknown
provenance
Jacques Kaplan, ca. 1975; Solomon &
Company Fine Art, Inc., 1978; private
collection, ca. 1979; unknown owner
group exhibitions
Solomon & Company Fine Art, New
York, ca. 1975–76.
1965
Acrylic on paperboard
39¾ x 27 in. (101 x 68.6 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower left: RM 65
present owner
Collection of Didrichsen Art Museum
provenance
Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki,
Finland, 1968
group exhibitions
Tampere Art Museum, Finland, 1975.
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: RM 65
artist’s studio number
d65-562
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
comments
Regarding Motherwell’s use of the figure 4 in his works, see the Comments
for The Figure 4 on an Elegy (w104).
Nassau County Museum of Fine Art,
Roslyn Harbor, N.Y., 1981, cat. no. 56,
illus. p. 57, as In Black with Ochre.
comments
Our reproduction comes from an
early black-and-white photograph of
this work.
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