Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 52
c45
1947
Oil and pasted papers on board
20 x 15 in. (50.8 x 38.1 cm)
provenance
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, 1947; Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Neuberger, ca. 1948;
private collection; Greenberg Gallery,
Saint Louis, after 1965; private collection, 1977; Paul Gotskind, 1979; private
collection, 1981; Iris S. Wolstein
inscriptions
Recto, lower center, incised: 47
Motherwell
solo exhibitions
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York,
May 1948, cat. no. 3.
Recto, upper left, incised: Motherwell
47
Pasadena Art Museum, Calif.,
February 1962, cat. no. 4.
Verso: In grey with parasol /47
Verso: In grey with Japanese rice
paper /47
group exhibitions
Detroit Institute of Arts, 1950.
artist’s studio number
c57-5060
artist’s studio number
c47-5153
references
Mattison 1985b, illus. n.p. (fig. 196).
present owner
Art Gallery of Ontario. Gift from the
Women’s Committee Fund, 1962
c45
In Grey with Japanese Rice
Paper
present owner
Iris S. Wolstein
40
collages
c46
In Grey with Parasol
Alternative Title: Grey Woman (?)
1947
Oil, pasted crocodile skin, pasted
papers, and ink on board
47½ x 35½ in. (120.7 x 90.2 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left, incised: 47
Motherwell
provenance
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, 1947; New
Gallery, New York, before 1961; Art
Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1962
solo exhibitions
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York,
May 1948, as Grey Woman (?).
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York,
October 1949.
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin
College, Ohio, 1952, cat. no. 11.
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Robert Motherwell, September 1965
(traveling), New York, cat. no. 15, illus.
p. 21; Amsterdam, cat. no. 15, illus. n.p.;
Essen, cat. no. 13; Turin, cat. no. 13,
illus. p. 74 (pl. 14).
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
November 1972 (traveling), cat. no. 8,
illus. p. 56.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo,
1983 (traveling), cat. no. 12, color illus.
p. 61.
