Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 644
w629
w628
comments
This work was originally number 7 in
the Drunk with Turpentine series (see
the Comments for w542). Motherwell
retitled it Spanish Wall No. 1 just prior to
its inclusion in an exhibition at the
Museum of Modern Art, New York, in
December 1987, along with two other
works designated as Spanish Wall No. 2
and Spanish Wall No. 4 (w629 and w630).
There is no known work designated as
number 3 in the Spanish Wall series.
w629
w630
Spanish Wall No. 2
Spanish Wall No. 4
Group exhIbItIons
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown,
Mass., June 1988.
Alternative Title: Drunk with Turpentine
1979
Oil on paper
23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
Alternative Title: Untitled
1979
Oil and ink on paper
18 x 35 in. (45.7 x 88.9 cm), irreg.
Worcester Art Museum, Mass., 1998
(traveling).
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: Motherwell 79
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: Robert
Motherwell 79
artIst’s studIo number
p79-2280
present owner
The Museum of Modern Art, New
York. Gift of the artist
provenance
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
1987
solo exhIbItIons
Visual Arts Museum, School of Visual
Arts, New York, 1983, as Drunk with
Turpentine.
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
1987.
comments
Regarding the title of this work, see the
Comments for w628.
632
w630
paintings on pa p e r an d p a p e r b o a r d
artIst’s studIo number
d79-2228
present owner
Worcester Art Museum. Eliza S. Paine
Fund and gift of the Dedalus
Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Worcester
Art Museum, Mass., 1997
solo exhIbItIons
William Benton Museum of Art,
University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1979,
cat. no. 97 (catalogue), as Untitled.
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
1987.
references
Marks 1988, p. 20, illus. p. 20;
Nickerson 1988, p. 11.
comments
Regarding the title of this work, see the
Comments for Spanish Wall No. 1
(w628). This work was used as the
model for a 1991 print, Untitled
(Engberg and Banach 2003, no. 536),
which was in the process of being editioned at the time of Motherwell’s
death.
