Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 562
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w373
Gesture Series No. 1
1971
Acrylic on canvas paper
19½ x 15⅞ in. (49.5 x 40.3 cm)
w374
series. All of the works in this series
were done on canvas paper; some were
mounted on board after the artist’s
death.
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w376
w375
w376
Gesture Series No. 3
Gesture Series No. 4
1971
Acrylic on canvas paper
19½ x 16 in. (49.5 x 40.6 cm)
1971
Acrylic on canvas paper
19½ x 16 in. (49.5 x 40.6 cm)
w374
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 71
Gesture Series No. 2
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 71
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 71
artist’s studio number
p71-441
1971
Acrylic on canvas paper
19½ x 16 in. (49.5 x 40.6 cm)
artist’s studio number
p71-439
present owner
Unknown
present owner
The collection of Mr. and Mrs. Scott W.
Seaton
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 71
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
The artist
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
comments
Our reproduction comes from a blackand-white photograph of this work
taken around 1972 (studio inventory
photo no. ph 22-5). We do not know
whether this work still exists in the
form illustrated here.
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Mr. and
Mrs. Scott W. Seaton, 2006
solo exhibitions
Tirca Karlis Gallery, Provincetown,
Mass., 1973.
comments
This painting is the first numbered
work in Motherwell’s 1971 Gesture
series, which was numbered from 1 to
17 (w373–w388); there is no known
work designated as number 15 in the
550
artist’s studio number
p71-436
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
solo exhibitions
Art Museum, Princeton University,
N.J., 1973, cat. no. 42.
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City,
1975, cat. no. 30.
paintings on pa p e r an d p a p e r b o a r d
solo exhibitions
Tirca Karlis Gallery, Provincetown,
Mass., 1973.
