Provenance Sidney Janis Gallery, New York Acquired from the above by the family of the present owner in 1959 Exhibited New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Robert Motherwell, March 9 – April 4, 1959, no. 1 (illustrated on exhibition poster) Pasadena Art Museum, Robert Motherwell: A Retrospective Exhibition, February 18 – March 11, 1962, no. 24 (erroneously titled Sculptor’s Eulogy) Pasadena Art Museum, November 20, 1963 - July 3, 1964 (on loan) Los Angeles County Museum of Art, New York School, The First Generation: Paintings of the 1940s and 1950s, June 16 – August 1, 1965, no. 70, p. 226 (illustrated, p. 104) San Francisco Museum of Art, Santa Barbara Collects, July 11 – August 30, 1970, no. 30 Washington, D.C., Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, The Fifies: Aspects of Painting in New York, May 22 – September 21, 1980, no. 55, p. 98 (illustrated)
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Literature Stuart Preston, “The Many Faces of Painting and Sculpture,” New York Times, March 15, 1959, p. 18 Helen De Mott, “In the Galleries,” Arts Magazine 33, no. 7, April 1959, p. 53 (illustrated) Jerrold Lanes, “Refections on Post-Cubist Painting,” Arts Magazine 33, no. 8, May 1959, p. 28 “The Motherwell Show,” Letter to the Editor, Arts Magazine 33, no. 8, May 1959, p. 8 Barbara Lenox, “Art & Architecture on Display,” Los Angeles Times, February 21, 1960, p. 16 (installation view illustrated) Max Kozlof, “An Interview with Robert Motherwell: ‘How I Admire My Colleagues!,’” Artforum 4, no. 1, September 1965, p. 33 (illustrated) Frank O’Hara, Robert Motherwell, New York, 1965, p. 81 (Sidney Janis exhibition poster, illustrated) Hjorvardur Harvard Arnason, Robert Motherwell, New York, 1977, no. 25, p. 49 (Sidney Janis installation view illustrated, p. 51) “Smithsonian Highlights,” Smithsonian, May 1980, p. 172 (illustrated) Hjorvardur Harvard Arnason, Robert Motherwell, New York, 1982, no. 42, pp. 49-50 (illustrated) Jack Flam, Katy Rogers and Tim Cliford, eds., Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1994-1991, vol. 2, New Haven, 2012, no. P173, pp. 109-110 (illustrated)
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