Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 585
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comments
The numbers in the artist’s hand at the
lower left corner of this work and of
w460–w462 suggest that Motherwell at
one time planned to include them in a
numbered series.
Group exhIbItIons
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles,
February 1999, cat. no. 17.
references
Muchnic 1998, p. 178.
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[ Untitled (Samurai)]
1973
Acrylic on paper
35½ x 18¼ in. (90.2 x 46.4 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: R Motherwell 73
Untitled
1973
Acrylic on paper
35¼ x 18½ in. (89.5 x 47 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower left: 3
Recto, lower right: RM 73
Recto, lower left: 4
artIst’s studIo number
d73-509
present owner
Private collection. Courtesy of Locks
Gallery, Philadelphia
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2000
solo exhIbItIons
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles,
1997, cat. no. 15.
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Private collection; [Sotheby’s, New
York, November 10, 2005, lot 224,
illus.]; Hollis Taggart Galleries, 2005;
private collection, 2007
Group exhIbItIons
Minnesota Museum of Art, Saint Paul,
1977 (traveling), cat. no. 62, illus. p. 23.
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Black Guardian
Black Guardian
Alternative Title: {Black Samurai }
1973
Acrylic on paper
35½ x 18¼ in. (90.2 x 46.4 cm)
Alternative Title: {Black Samurai }
1973
Acrylic on paper
35 x 18 in. (88.9 x 45.7 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower left: R Motherwell 73 5
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 73
artIst’s studIo number
p73-1276
artIst’s studIo number
p73-1277
present owner
Private collection
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2005
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2001; private collection,
ca. 2001
solo exhIbItIons
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen,
Germany, 2004, color illus. p. 108, as
Black Samurai.
solo exhIbItIons
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles,
2000, cat. no. 20, as Black Samurai.
Galerie Lelong, Paris, 2005.
Group exhIbItIons
Brooklyn Museum, November 1980,
cat. no. 86.
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