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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nov 17, 2018 | Christie's | New York | Post-War and Contemporary Art Morning Session | 618 | $****** - ****** | Joy of Living |
paintings
76.2 x 61 cm (30 x 24 in)
oil, ink, printed paper and paper collage on board
signed and dated 'Motherwell 48' (lower center), titled and dated again 'Joy of Living 48' (on the reverse)
Vera G. and Albert A. List, New York
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, circa 1965
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1984
Princeton University, Art Museum, Robert Motherwell: Recent Work, January-February 1973, p. 23, no. 20 (illustrated).
New York, Robert Elkon Gallery, Twentieth Century Masters On Paper, October-November 1976, n.p., no. 25 (illustrated).
Southampton, Parrish Art Museum; Storrs, The University of Connecticut, The William Benton Museum of Art and New York, Zabriskie Gallery, Seventeen Abstract Artists of East Hampton: The Pollock Years, 1946-56, July-December, 1980, p. 17, no. 35.
New York, Robert Elkon Gallery, Robert Elkon-Memorial Exhibition, A Tribute, October-November 1983.
Stanford University Museum of Art, Twentieth-Century Drawings from the Anderson Collection: Auguste Rodin to Elizabeth Murray, November 1988-February 1989, p. 29, no. 16.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection, October 2000- January 2001, pp. 286 and 376, no. 194, pl. 166 (illustrated).
H. H. Arnason, Robert Motherwell, New York, 1977, pp. 19-20.
H. H. Arnason, Robert Motherwell, New York, 1982, p. 22, pl. 11 (illustrated).
Robert Motherwell: Essays by Dore Ashton and Jack D. Flam, Buffalo, 1983, p. 56.
R. S. Mattison, "The Art of Robert Motherwell during the 1940s," Princeton University, 1985, fig. 203, p. 224 (illustrated).
R. S. Mattison, Robert Motherwell: The Formative Years, Studies in the Fine Arts: The Avant-Garde 56, Ann Arbor, 1987, p. 196 (erroneously titled The Joy of Living II).
J. Flam, Motherwell, New York, 1991, pl. 5 (illustrated).
M. A. Caws, Robert Motherwell: What Art Holds, New York, 1996, pp. 167-168 (illustrated).
J. Wentrup, “Robert Motherwell und die Spanischen Elegien.“ M.A. thesis, Münster, 2001, p. 50.
J. Flam, K. Rogers and T. Clifford, Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941-1991, Volume Three: Collages and Paintings on Paper and Paperboard, New Haven, 2012, p. 45, no. C51 (illustrated).
M. Fontanella. “Bloodstains and Bullet Holes: Motherwell, Collage, and World War II,” Robert Motherwell: Early Collages. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2013, p. 51.
signed and dated 'Motherwell 48' (lower center); titled and dated again 'Joy of Living 48' (on the reverse)
oil, ink, printed paper and paper collage on board
30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 60.9 cm.)
Executed in 1948.
