Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 643
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Brushstroke
[ Untitled (Brushstroke)]
Untitled
Spanish Wall No. 1
Alternative Title: Stroke
1979
Oil on paper
22½ x 17½ in. (57.2 x 44.5 cm), irreg.
1979
Acrylic on paper
30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
1979
Acrylic on paper
9¾ x 9⅞ in. (24.8 x 25.1 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM Sept 79
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 79
Alternative Title: Drunk with Turpentine
No. 7
1979
Oil on paper
29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm)
artist’s studio number
d79-2466
artist’s studio number
d79-2940
inscriptions
Recto, lower left: Motherwell 79
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
artist’s studio number
p79-2301
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
present owner
The Museum of Modern Art, New
York. Gift of the artist
comments
This work is related to Motherwell’s
1979 Brushstroke series (see the
Comments for p967 and w625). It also
has affinities with the 1980 lithograph
Brushstroke (Engberg and Banach
2003, no. 251).
solo exhibitions
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles,
November 2002, cat. no. 37, erroneously as Drunk with Turpentine Series.
provenance
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
1987
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 5 May 79
artist’s studio number
p79-2295; p79-3607
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
solo exhibitions
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, 1979,
cat. no. 120, illus. n.p. (in exhibition),
as Stroke.
comments
This work is related to Motherwell’s
1979 Brushstroke series (see the
Comments for p967). It was probably
inspired by an anonymous seventeenthcentury Japanese ink painting consisting of a single horizontal brushstroke,
Ichi (One), that Motherwell had
acquired in 1968.
solo exhibitions
Harcus Krakow Gallery, Boston, 1980,
cat. no. 18, as Drunk with Turpentine #7.
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
1987.
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