Lot Essay
This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Paintings & Collages by Robert Motherwell being prepared by the Dedalus Foundation.
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Beside the Sea, No. 3
Details
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)
Beside the Sea, No. 3
signed 'Motherwell' (lower center); signed again, titled and dated '"Beside the Sea, #3" Robert Motherwell 1962' (on the backing board)
oil on paper
29 x 22¾ in. (73.6 x 57.7 cm.)
Painted in 1962.
Beside the Sea, No. 3
signed 'Motherwell' (lower center); signed again, titled and dated '"Beside the Sea, #3" Robert Motherwell 1962' (on the backing board)
oil on paper
29 x 22¾ in. (73.6 x 57.7 cm.)
Painted in 1962.
Provenance
Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1965
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1965
Literature
B. Wasserman, "The Art of Robert Motherwell," Art Education 18, no. 7, October 1965, pp. 16-19 (illustrated in color on the cover of the magazine).
Exhibited
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, New Paintings in Oil and Collage by Robert Motherwell, December 1962, n.p. (illustrated).
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Robert Motherwell, October-November 1965, no. 63.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and Kunsthalle Bremen, Twentieth Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations, January-August 1976.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Robert Motherwell, October-November 1965, no. 63.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and Kunsthalle Bremen, Twentieth Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations, January-August 1976.
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