Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 566
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Untitled
Alternative Title: {Untitled (Samurai)}
1972
Acrylic on paper
22 x 11½ in. (55.9 x 29.2 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 72
artist’s studio number
d72-3254
present owner
Collection of David and Susan Goode
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; David and
Susan Goode, 2001
comments
This painting served as the maquette
for a tapestry commissioned by
Westinghouse Broadcasting in
Philadelphia, and fabricated by Gloria
F. Ross Tapestries. Motherwell also created four other paintings on paper as
studies for this tapestry (w390–w393).
This painting, although not titled as
part of the numbered Tapestry Study
series, was in fact the first work done in
that series. This group of five paintings
was a precursor to what would later
become known as the Samurai series of
1974 (see the Comments for p775).
solo exhibitions
Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery,
Columbia University, New York, 1997
(traveling), cat. no. VIII.3, color illus.
p. 152 (pl. 81), as Untitled (Samurai).
references
Cotter 1997, illus. sec. C, p. 30, as
Untitled (Samurai).
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paintings on pa p e r an d p a p e r b o a r d
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Tapestry Study No. 2
Tapestry Study No. 3
1972
Acrylic on paper
21¾ x 14¼ in. (55.2 x 36.2 cm)
1972
Acrylic on paper
22 x 11½ in. (55.9 x 29.2 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: RM 72
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 72
present owner
Collection of Galerie Berès, Paris
present owner
Unknown
provenance
Private collection, 1972; [Sotheby’s,
New York, October 5, 1989, lot 79,
illus.]; unknown owner, 1989;
[Sotheby’s, New York, May 15, 2008,
lot 176, illus.]; Galerie Berès, Paris,
2008
provenance
Private collection, 1973; unknown
owner
solo exhibitions
Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit, 1972,
cat. no. 13.
solo exhibitions
Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit, 1972,
cat. no. 14.
comments
Our reproduction comes from an
unnumbered studio inventory photograph of this work taken around 1972.
