Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 586
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Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
1974
Acrylic on paper
35½ x 23¾ in. (90.2 x 60.3 cm)
1974
Acrylic on paper
31 x 22½ in. (78.7 x 57.2 cm)
{ Untitled (Open in White on
Ochre)}
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 20 March 74
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: RM 74
artIst’s studIo number
p74-3670
present owner
Private collection
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
comments
The composition of this work is related
to Waves I (p791), a painting begun in
1974, and to a number of prints done in
1974 (Engberg and Banach 2003, nos.
154, 156–58).
574
provenance
Unknown owner; Solomon & Company
Fine Art, Inc.; Jonathan Novak
Contemporary Art, 1988; Michael
Dunev Gallery, San Francisco, 1988;
private collection, ca. 1989
comments
This work is related in composition and
color to the contemporaneous Persian
series (p789, p792, p795, and p797) and
to The Wild Duck (p794).
paintings on pa p e r an d p a p e r b o a r d
1974
Acrylic and charcoal on cardboard
24 x 36 in. (61 x 91.4 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left: Motherwell
2 Sept 74
artIst’s studIo number
d74-667
present owner
Art Gallery of Ontario. Purchased with
funds from an anonymous donor, with
support from the Dedalus Foundation,
1998
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Art Gallery
of Ontario, Toronto, 1998
1974
Acrylic on paper
11 x 11 in. (27.9 x 27.9 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower left: R Motherwell 74 for
Ken Tyler
present owner
Unknown
provenance
Kenneth E. Tyler, 1974; [Sotheby’s,
New York, May 18, 2000, lot 379,
illus.]; unknown owner, 2000
comments
The dedication at the lower left of this
picture is to Motherwell’s friend and
collaborator, the printmaker Kenneth
Tyler. This work was used as a model
for a 1982 print published by Tyler
Graphics Ltd., Alberti Elegy (Engberg
and Banach 2003, no. 288).
