Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 548
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I.H. Series No. 27
I.H. Series No. 29
I.H. Series No. 30
1970
Acrylic, ink, and lithograph on paper
22 x 17 in. (55.9 x 43.2 cm)
1970
Acrylic, ink, and lithograph on paper
22 x 17 in. (55.9 x 43.2 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: Motherwell
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: RM 1967
Alternative Title: I.H. Series No. 25
1970
Acrylic, ink, and lithograph on paper
22 x 17 in. (55.9 x 43.2 cm)
Green and Black (The Basque
Suite)
present owner
Unknown
present owner
Private collection, California
provenance
Unknown owner; [Sotheby’s, New York,
October 5, 1989, lot 83, illus.];
unknown owner, 1989
provenance
Gertrude Kasle Gallery; private collection, ca. 1985; [Frank H. Boos Gallery,
Bloomfield Hills, Mich., December 9,
1998, lot 228, illus.]; Bruce and
Kathryn Wenokur, 1998; [Butterfield &
Butterfield, San Francisco, Los
Angeles, and Chicago, April 18, 2000,
lot 2076, illus.]; private collection,
California, 2000
comments
Our reproduction of this work comes
from the 1989 Sotheby’s auction
catalogue.
references
Micucci 2002, p. 52, back cover color
illus., color illus. p. 52, erroneously as
Untitled.
comments
The 1967 date in the signature on this
work refers to the date of the lithograph
that Motherwell painted over in 1970.
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paintings on pa p e r an d p a p e r b o a r d
1970
Acrylic, ink, and lithograph on paper
22 x 17 in. (55.9 x 43.2 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower left: Motherwell
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: Motherwell
present owner
Unknown
present owner
Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco
provenance
The artist
provenance
Private collection, 1970; New York
Studio School of Drawing, Painting &
Sculpture, 1997; Mark Borghi Fine Art,
Inc., 2005; Hollis Taggart Galleries,
2005; Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco,
2006; private collection, 2006; Weinstein
Gallery, San Francisco, 2009
comments
This work is known only from a blackand-white photograph taken around
1973 (unnumbered studio inventory
photograph). There are two studio
cards for this work; one identifies it as
I.H. Series No. 25, the other as I.H.
Series No. 30. We do not know whether
this work still exists in the form illustrated here.
comments
The descriptive titles assigned to this
and other Basque Suite paintings on
paper (see w332–w335) were most
likely given at a later date. This work
was used as the basis for a 1971 screen
print, The Basque Suite: Untitled
(Engberg and Banach 2003, no. 86).
