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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 16, 2019 | Christie's | New York | Post-War and Contemporary Art Morning Session | 624 | $****** - ****** | Black Still Life |
paintings
103.5 x 124.1 cm (40.75 x 48.88 in)
oil on paper mounted on Masonite
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'RM 50' (upper right); signed again, titled with alternate title and dated again 'Robert Motherwell 1950 Black Interior' (on the reverse)
Paul Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles
Gifford and Joann Phillips, New York, 1953
By descent from the above to the present owner
New York, Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, Motherwell: First Exhibition of Paintings in Three Years, November-December 1950, no. 12.
New York, Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, Resumé of the 1950–51 Season, June 1951, no. 16.
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1951 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, November 1951-January 1952, no. 102.
Urbana, Illinois, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, March-April 1952, pl. 112 (illustrated).
Cincinnati Art Museum, Purchase Exhibition: Modern Painting and Drawing, April-May 1952, no. 24.
Pomona, California, Art Building Fair Grounds, Painting in the U.S.A., 1721-1953, September-October 1953, p. 54, no. 104 (illustrated).
Pasadena Art Museum, Robert Motherwell: A Retrospective Exhibition, February-March 1962, no. 15.
Los Angeles, UCLA Art Galleries, The Gifford and Joann Phillips Collection, November-December 1962, p. 4, no. 68 (illustrated).
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Robert Motherwell: Works on Paper, February-March 1967.
Los Angeles, Otis Art Institute, Robert Motherwell in California Collections, November 1974-January 1975, no. 9 (illustrated).
H. Devree, “Modern Outburst: Abstract Work Stressed in Late Season Shows,” New York Times, 10 June 1951, p. 9.
H. Devree, "Annual Round-Up: The Whitney Opens Its Survey for 1951—Recent Works by Knaths and Others," The New York Times, 11 November 1951, p. 9.
H. J. Seldis, "Pasadena Show Scores a First: Motherwell Retrospective," Los Angeles Times, 25 February 1962, p. 24.
G. Nordland, "Art: Robert Motherwell," Frontier, vol. 13, no. 6, April 1962, p. 21 (illustrated).
G. Nordland, "Los Angeles Letter," Das Kunstwerk, no. 16, November-December 1962, p. 76 (illustrated).
F. Moffat, "Separate Ways for the W.H. Crockers," San Francisco Chronicle, 24 February 1967, p. 21 (installation view illustrated).
W.C. Seitz, Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, Cambridge, 1983, p. 52, no. 181 (illustrated).
J. Flam, K. Rogers, and T. Clifford, Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941-1991, Volume Two: Paintings on Canvas and Panel, New Haven and London, 2012, p. 65, no. P105 (illustrated).
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'RM 50' (upper right); signed again, titled with alternate title and dated again 'Robert Motherwell 1950 Black Interior' (on the reverse)
oil on paper mounted on Masonite
40 ¾ x 48 7/8 in. (103.5 x 124.1 cm.)
Painted in 1950.
