Robert Motherwell
Pauillac, #4

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Artist Robert Motherwell American, 1915–1991

PrinterPrinted by Kenneth E. TylerAmerican, born 1931

PrinterPrinted by Ronald McPhersonAmerican, 20th century

PrinterPrinted by James WebbAmerican, born 1942

PublisherPublished by Gemini G.E.L.Los Angeles

CultureAmerican

Titles

Pauillac, #4
from the series Summer Light

Date1973

MediumLithograph in blue on wove paper with collage of offset photolithograph in colors, torn-and-pasted color wove paper, and embossing, edition 8/54

DimensionsSheet: 36 × 18 in. (91.4 × 45.7 cm)
Frame: 39 5/8 × 22 5/8 × 1 5/16 in. (100.6 × 57.5 × 3.3 cm)

Credit LineBequest of William Woodford

Object number2020.290

Not on view

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Prints and Drawings

Object Type

PRINTS

ProvenanceThe artist and Gemini G.E.L., 1973; Collection of William Woodford (1939-2020), [1] by 2020; Estate of William Woodford, 2020; given to MFAH, 2020.

[1] William Woodford (1939–2020) graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1961 from U.T. where he was president of his fraternity Pi Kappa Alpha. He received his law degree from U.T. in 1964, having served as Associate Editor for the Texas Law Review (1963-1964) and being named a Chancellor as well as becoming a member of Phi Delta Phi. After clerking for the Hon. Joseph C. Hutcheson, Jr. for the Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, he joined the law firm Baker Botts in 1965 where he spent the entirety of his career, becoming a partner in 1972. A long-time member of this museum, Woodford channeled his love of the arts through his discriminating collecting and became an avid photographer, taking and developing his own prints with a particular focus on the Houston Ballet. His generous bequest also included a painting by Dorothy Hood and a number of important works to the Prints and Drawings department.

Exhibition HistoryLaguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Tex., Robert Motherwell: Paintings, Collages, and Prints, September 19—October 19, 1975
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Recto: Signed and inscribed in graphite, lower right, below image: Motherwell 8/54
Verso: Unknown at present.
Back label: Label printed in ink and black pen, lower center: Laguna Gloria Art Museum label with tombstone information
Back label: Label printed in ink on gold, lower center (below above): Glen Rumsey & Co. framing label

Signed and editioned in graphite, below image right: Motherwell 8/54

Watermark: None known at present.

Recto: Chopmark, below matrix, bottom right corner : Gemini G.E.L. chopmark (See Fig. 6)
Recto: Chopmark, below matrix, bottom right corner : Robert Motherwell chopmark (See Fig. 6)

Catalogue raisonnéGemini 475; Belknap 122; Banach and Engberg 151

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