Robert Motherwell

Black Collage

1957

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Robert Motherwell

Black Collage

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.

Darsie Alexander, "Robert Motherwell: Meanings of Abstraction,"Baltimore Museum of Art, May 20, 2006 - July 30, 2006.

March 1959 in Motherwell exhibition at Sidney Janis Gallery [donor information, need to confirm with gallery records].

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.

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]'