Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 599
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Untitled
Totemic Figure
1976
Acrylic and graphite on paper
18½ x 26 in. (47 x 66 cm)
Alternative Title: {Totemic Figure
(Arrow)}
1976
Acrylic and graphite on paper
14 x 10 in. (35.6 x 25.4 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM
Recto, lower right: Motherwell 76
artIst’s studIo number
p76-2310
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2000
solo exhIbItIons
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles,
1997, cat. no. 21, color illus. n.p.
Group exhIbItIons
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles,
February 1999, cat. no. 19.
references
McKenna 1997, illus. p. 66.
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 76
artIst’s studIo number
d76-1041
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comments
This work is related to Totemic Figure
(p212), Emblematic Presence (p904),
and Totem No. 2 (p906), as well as to
Totemic Emblem (w514) and Emblematic
Presence III (w515).
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
solo exhIbItIons
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, 1978.
Marlborough Gallery, New York, 1999,
cat. no. 20, as Totemic Figure (Arrow).
Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago,
December 2005 (traveling), cat. no. 11,
as Totemic Figure (Arrow).
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