Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 597
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Open Study on Sienna
Elegy Study
[ Mardi Gras]
Red Wall Sketch
1976
Acrylic and graphite on paper
30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
1976
Oil, ink, crayon, and graphite on paper
29½ x 39½ in. (74.9 x 100.3 cm)
1976
Acrylic and graphite on paper
17½ x 24⅝ in. (44.5 x 62.5 cm)
1976
Acrylic and crayon on paper
18 x 24½ in. (45.7 x 62.2 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 76
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: Motherwell
12 June 76
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: 15 June
Motherwell 76
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower left: Motherwell/
15 June 76
artIst’s studIo number
d76-1048
artIst’s studIo number
p76-2250
artIst’s studIo number
p76-1040
present owner
Art Gallery of Ontario. Purchased with
funds from an anonymous donor, with
support from the Dedalus Foundation,
1998
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
provenance
Private collection, 1978
Recto, lower right: Motherwell
11 June 76
artIst’s studIo number
d76-1046
present owner
Unknown
provenance
Private collection, 1978; unknown
owner
solo exhIbItIons
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, 1978.
Group exhIbItIons
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, 1984,
cat. no. 15, color illus. n.p.
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Art Gallery
of Ontario, Toronto, 1995
solo exhIbItIons
Knoedler & Company, New York, 1978,
cat. no. 30, illus. p. 21.
comments
This work is similar in color and
composition to three paintings from
Motherwell’s A la pintura series done
in the same year (see p896–p898).
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de
Caracas, Venezuela, 1979, cat. no. 9.
p a i n tin gs on paper and paperbo ard
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