Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 649
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Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
1980
Acrylic on paper
30½ x 19 in. (77.5 x 48.3 cm), irreg.
1980
Acrylic on paper
30 x 18 in. (76.2 x 45.7 cm), irreg.
1980
Acrylic on paper
30½ x 17¾ in. (77.5 x 45.1 cm), irreg.
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: RM for Lindsay
+ Ken Tyler 1980
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: Motherwell 81
Alternative Title: {In Black with Blue
“4” }
1980
Acrylic on paper
29 x 18 in. (73.7 x 45.7 cm), irreg.
artist’s studio number
d81-3681; p81-2845
inscriptions
Recto not signed, not dated
artist’s studio number
p81-2844; p81-2884
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
artist’s studio number
p86-2654
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
present owner
Collection of Mrs. Nathalie Obadia,
Paris
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
present owner
Kenneth E. Tyler
provenance
Kenneth E. Tyler; [Sotheby’s, New
York, May 18, 2000, lot 401, illus.
(not sold)]
comments
This is one of a number of works that
Motherwell painted in 1980 on multilayered handmade paper created by
Tyler Graphics Ltd. (see w644–w646).
Motherwell dedicated this work to
Kenneth Tyler and his wife at the time,
Lindsay Green.
comments
Although Motherwell dated this work
1981 on the recto, it appears in its
final form in a November 1980 studio
photograph (Sloman photo no. 1227).
It was painted on a multilayered paper
made by Tyler Graphics Ltd.
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Nathalie
Obadia, Paris, 2007
solo exhibitions
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles,
2005, cat. no. 24.
inscriptions
Recto not signed, not dated
comments
Motherwell painted this work on a
multilayered paper made by Tyler
Graphics Ltd. Regarding his use of the
figure 4, see the Comments for The
Figure 4 on an Elegy (w104).
comments
Motherwell painted this work on a multilayered paper made by Tyler Graphics
Ltd. Regarding his use of the figure 4,
see the Comments for The Figure 4 on
an Elegy (w104).
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