Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 590
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Gesture Paper Painting No. 11
1975
Acrylic on paper
18 x 25 in. (45.7 x 63.5 cm), irreg.
w480
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
The artist
w481
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
comments
Motherwell also assigned the number
12 to another work in the Gesture
Paper Painting series (see w478). We do
not know whether this work still exists
in the form illustrated here.
1975
Acrylic on paper
22 x 20 in. (55.9 x 50.8 cm), irreg.
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: Motherwell 75
solo exhibitions
Knoedler & Company, New York, 1976,
cat. no. 5.
artist’s studio number
d75-2431
references
Ratcliff 1976, p. 75.
comments
Motherwell also assigned the number
12 to another work in the Gesture
Paper Painting series (see w479).
w480
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
w479
Gesture Paper Painting No. 12
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: [illegible in available
image]
1975
Acrylic on paper
20 x 22 in. (50.8 x 55.9 cm), irreg.
present owner
Unknown
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: Motherwell 75
provenance
Private collection, 1976; unknown
owner
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
w478
Gesture Paper Painting No. 12
1975
Acrylic on paper
22 x 20 in. (55.9 x 50.8 cm), irreg.
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: Motherwell 75
artist’s studio number
d75-319
artist’s studio number
p75-2430
present owner
Unknown
578
w481
paintings on pa p e r an d p a p e r b o a r d
Gesture Paper Painting No. 15
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: Motherwell 75
Recto, lower left: 9
Gesture Paper Painting No. 13
1975
Acrylic on paper
20 x 22 in. (50.8 x 55.9 cm), irreg.
comments
Our reproduction comes from an early
Polaroid photograph of this work.
present owner
Unknown
provenance
Private collection, ca. 1976; Waddington
Galleries, London, 1977; private
collection, 1977; [Christie’s, New York,
November 19, 1981, lot 233, illus.];
unknown owner, 1981
comments
Our reproduction comes from a blackand-white photograph of this work
taken in September 1975 (Sloman
photo no. 272).
