Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 526
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w262
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w263
Beside the Sea, with Sand
Wave
[ Untitled (Beside the Sea)]
[ Study in Watercolor No. 1
(In Green and Blue)]
[ Study in Watercolor No. 2
(In Green and Blue)]
1968
Acrylic and watercolor on paper
30½ x 22 in. (77.5 x 55.9 cm)
1968
Acrylic and watercolor on paper
30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto not signed, not dated
InscrIptIons
Recto not signed, not dated
artIst’s studIo number
d68-597
artIst’s studIo number
d68-417
present owner
Private collection
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2008
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
1968
Acrylic and gouache on paper
30½ x 22 in. (77.5 x 55.9 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 68
Verso not seen [“inscribed with title on
the stretcher,” per Christie’s 1982]
present owner
Unknown
provenance
Private collection, 1977; [Christie’s,
New York, May 6, 1982, lot 85, illus.];
private collection, 1982; [Sotheby’s,
New York, May 3, 1989, lot 156, illus.];
unknown owner, 1989
1968
Acrylic and graphite on paper
30½ x 22⅛ in. (77.5 x 56.2 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left: RM 68
artIst’s studIo number
p68-3003
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2003
solo exhIbItIons
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London,
2003, cat. no. 14, as Untitled.
Group exhIbItIons
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse,
N.Y., 1977 (traveling), illus. p. 231, erroneously as Beside the Sea,With Sea Wave.
comments
Our reproduction of this work comes
from the 1982 Christie’s auction
catalogue.
514
paintings on p a p e r an d p a p e r b o a r d
comments
Although the works in this numbered
series are titled Study in Watercolor
(see also w263–w267), they also contain acrylic paint. The blues are usually
drawn in watercolor, but the other
colors are painted in acrylic.
