Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 66
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Mediterranean Interior with
Humor and Black Table
1956
Oil, pasted papers, and crayon on
board
30 x 20 in. (76.2 x 50.8 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, center (on collage element):
Robert Motherwell 56
present owner
Collection of W. Stephen Croddy
provenance
Private collection, 1957; [Christie’s,
New York, May 13, 1998, lot 121, illus.];
W. Stephen Croddy, 1998
solo exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, May
1957, cat. no. 9.
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collages
comments
Placed among the pasted elements
of this collage are a mailing label
and brown paper packaging from
Imprimeries Réunis, S.A., Lausanne,
the publishers of the art journal L’Oeil.
The Swiss postmark is dated July 17,
1956, and the package shows both
Motherwell’s New York address and the
address to which it was forwarded in
Provincetown: 2 Allerton Street, where
he spent the summer of 1956.
This collage was reproduced on
the poster for Motherwell’s first solo
exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery,
in May 1957.
Histoire d’un Peintre
Watkins Gallery, American University,
Washington, D.C., 1963, as Life of a
Painter.
1956
Pasted papers, charcoal, and crayon on
paperboard
16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5 cm)
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
November 1972 (traveling), cat. no. 13,
illus. p. 61.
inscriptions
Recto, upper right (on collage element):
R. Motherwell 1956
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City,
1975, cat. no. 9.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, 1984, cat. no. 83.
Verso: Robert Motherwell: “Histoire
d’un peintre” 1956 “Story of a Painter” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1996,
cat. no. 29, color illus. n.p.
“Day the house, Night the Street”
artist’s studio number
c56-1948
present owner
Collection Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis. Gift of Margaret and
Angus Wurtele and the Dedalus
Foundation, 1995
provenance
Private collection, ca. 1957; Robert
Motherwell, 1977; Dedalus Foundation,
1991; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis,
1995
Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona,
1996 (traveling), cat. no. 17, color illus.
p. 105.
Museo Dolores Olmedo Patiño,
Mexico City, 2008, color illus. p. 37.
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art,
Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.,
2009, cat. no. 2.
group exhibitions
Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, 1956, cat. no. 129, illus. n.p.
Baltimore Museum of Art, July 1959.
solo exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, May
1957, cat. no. 8.
Baltimore Museum of Art, 1971.
Harcus Krakow Gallery, Boston, 1979.
