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Robert Motherwell

Black Collage

1957

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Robert Motherwell

Black Collage

1957

Physical Qualities Collage on cardboard, Sheet: 457 × 381 mm. (18 × 15 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Israel Rosen, Baltimore
Object Number 1972.64.1
Dr. Israel Rosen acquired from E.V. Thaw and Co., Inc., 1963; David Gibbs and Co. London; Sidney Janis Gallery.
Robert Motherwell: Meanings of Abstraction
Sidney Janis Gallery, Motherwell catalogue, 1962 (Cat. #39?)
Flam, Jack D. "Robert Motherwell paintings and collages: a catalogue raisonné, 1941-1991," New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. vol. III, p. 66-67, ill. p. 66.
O'Hara, Frank. Robert Motherwell, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Dist. by Doubleday & Company, NY, 1965 (cat. No. 3, p. 200).
Motherwell, Robert. The collages of Robert Motherwell: a retrospective exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,and text and catalogue by E. A. Carmean, Jr. Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, c1972. Fig. 1, page 11.
Terenzio, Stephanie. Robert Motherwell & Black. Storrs : William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, c1980.

Inscribed: RECTO: BLC: [artist signature scratched into surface] 'R Motherwell'; VERSO: UL: [Sidney Janis Gallery label] '#8023 MOTHERWELL - Black Collage 1958/ Cat #39'; UR: [Robert Motherwell stamp]; C: [David Gibbs & Co. Gallery label]/ (graphite) 'BLACK COLLAGE'/ 1958/ [arrow pointing up]'

Artist

Robert Motherwell

1914–1990

born Aberdeen, WA 1915; died Provincetown, MA 1991
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