Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 584
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Jet No. 3
Untitled (Samurai)
1973
Acrylic on paper
30¾ x 22½ in. (78.1 x 57.2 cm)
Alternative Title: {Untitled (Samurai
Image)}
1973
Acrylic on paper
30⅜ x 22⅜ in. (77.2 x 56.8 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: Motherwell
14 Nov 73
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Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen,
Germany, 2004, color illus. p. 113, as
Untitled (Samurai Image).
Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia,
2005, as Untitled (Samurai Image).
references
Stadel 2004, illus.; Via Rheinland
2004–5, illus. p. 25; S. 2005, illus.
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[ Untitled (Samurai)]
Alternative Title: {Untitled (Samurai
No. 2)}
1973
Acrylic on paper
35½ x 18¼ in. (90.2 x 46.4 cm)
artist’s studio number
c73-674
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: Motherwell
17 Nov 73
present owner
Unknown
artist’s studio number
p73-2991
provenance
Private collection, 1979; unknown
owner
present owner
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Virginia
Herrick Deknatel Purchase Fund
references
Catoir 1980, p. 284, illus. p. 285 (fig. 9).
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Charles
Young, 2005; Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, 2005
solo exhibitions
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen,
Germany, 2004, color illus. p. 111, as
Untitled (Samurai No. 2).
solo exhibitions
Galería Joan Prats, Basel Art Fair,
Switzerland, 1991, cat. no. 2 (sec.
“Works on Paper”), color illus. n.p.
group exhibitions
Galerie Contemporaine du Musée
d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain,
Nice, France, 2005, color illus. p. 49, as
Untitled (Samurai #2).
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London,
2003, cat. no. 6, as Untitled (Samurai
Image).
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comments
Motherwell added the Samurai series
subtitle to this and related works
sometime after his first public use of
the Samurai title at his 1976 Düsseldorf
retrospective. For more on the Samurai
series, see the Comments for Samurai
No. 1 (p775).
inscriptions
Recto, lower left: RM 73 2
artist’s studio number
d73-508
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
