Robert Motherwell
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Artist Robert Motherwell (American, 1915–1991)American, 1915–1991

CultureAmerican

Titles

Untitled

Date1944

PlaceUnited States

MediumInk on wove paper

DimensionsSheet: 13 3/8 × 9 7/8 in. (34 × 25.1 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds provided by the Alvin S. Romansky Prints and Drawings Accessions Endowment Fund and the Dedalus Foundation

Object number2005.418

Not on view

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Department

Prints and Drawings

Object Type

DRAWINGS, PASTELS & WATERCOLORS

Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"Robert Motherwell: The Early Collages," Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, June 1–September 8, 2013; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, September 27, 2013–January 5, 2014.

"Around Midcentury in the United States," Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Oct. 28, 2020–July 27, 2021. [Inaugural Installation: Kinder Building 207: No Catalog]

"Robert Motherwell Drawings: As Fast as the Mind Itself," The Menil Drawing Institute, Houston, November 18, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Marked in pencil upper left in the image: "Robert Motherwell 44"

Back labels:
Three from Sotheby's, New York - "M179028", 7267/182"
Two from Dedalus Foundation, Inc. - "Serial # D44-S99.4"
One from Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles - "Inventory No. C00.3843"

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