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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 | 622 | $****** - ****** | Spanish Painting with the Face of a Dog |
paintings
94.3 x 191.1 cm (37.13 x 75.25 in)
oil on canvas
incised with the artist's signature and dated 'Robert Motherwell 58' (upper right); signed again, inscribed, titled and dated again 'Robert Motherwell Spain, 1958 "SPANISH PAINTING, WITH THE FACE OF A DOG."' (on the stretcher)
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Gifford and Joann Phillips, New York, 1960
By descent from the above to the present owner
Bennington College, The New Gallery, Robert Motherwell: First Retrospective Exhibition, April-May 1959, no. 22.
Pasadena Art Museum, Robert Motherwell: A Retrospective Exhibition, February-March 1962, no. 37.
Los Angeles, UCLA Art Galleries, The Gifford and Joann Phillips Collection, November-December 1962, no. 72.
New York, Museum of Modern Art; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; London, Whitechapel Art Gallery; Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts; Essen, Museum Folkwang and Turin, Galleria Civica di Arte Moderna, Robert Motherwell, September 1965-October 1966, p. 11, no. 40 (New York, illustrated); no. 35 (Amsterdam; illustrated); p. 89, no. 29 (Turin; illustrated).
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Robert Motherwell: Works on Paper, February-March 1967.
Washington D.C., Phillips Collection, Seven Loans from the Gifford and Joann Phillips Collection, May-June 1971.
Los Angeles, Otis Art Institute, Robert Motherwell in California Collections, November 1974-January 1975, no. 16 (illustrated).
Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Seattle Art Museum; Washington D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art and New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Robert Motherwell, October 1983-February 1985, pp. 18 and 72 (illustrated).
E.C. Goossen, "Robert Motherwell and the Seriousness of Subject," Art International, vol. 3, nos. 1-2, January-February 1959, p. 51.
H.H. Arnason, "Robert Motherwell: The Years 1948 to 1965," Art International, vol. 10, no. 4, 20 April 1966, p. 31.
C.L. Morrison, "Motherwell's Abstraction," Midwest Art, vol. 3, no. 8, December 1976, p. 16 (illustrated).
H.H. Arnason, Robert Motherwell, New York, 1977, pp. 48 and 94, pl. 110 (illustrated in an earlier state).
C. W. Glenn, "The Collectors: A Cultivated Vision: Mr. and Mrs. Gifford Phillips in New York City," Architectural Digest, no. 6, June 1983, p. 117 (installation view illustrated).
K. Regan, "Messages from Motherwell," San Francisco Chronicle, 29 April 1984, p. 12.
L. West, "Motherwell and the MoMA," City Arts, May 1984, p. 15.
A.C. Danto, "Art," Nation 240, no. 2, 19 January 1985, p. 58.
H.F. Gaugh, "Elegy for an Exhibition," Artnews, vol. 85, no. 3, March 1985, p. 72.
R. Kimball, "The Motherwell Retrospective," The New Criterion, vol. 3, no. 7, March 1985, p. 36.
A.C. Danto, The State of the Art, New York, 1987, p. 49.
M. Pleynet, Robert Motherwell, Paris, 1989, pp. 44 and 91 (illustrated in an earlier state).
J. Flam, Robert Motherwell, New York, 1991, pl. 40 (illustrated).
S. Polcari, Abstract Expressionism and the Modern Experience, Oxford, 1991, p. 308.
M. A. Caws, Robert Motherwell: What Art Holds, New York, 1996, p. 65.
J. L. Chalumeau, Motherwell, 1915-1991, Paris, 1998, p. 36, pl. 33 (illustrated).
E. Hirsch, The Demon and the Angel. Searching for the Source of Artistic Inspiration, New York, 2002, p. 187.
M. A. Caws, Robert Motherwell: With Pen and Brush, London, 2003, p. 152, no. 100 (illustrated in an earlier state).
J. Flam, K. Rogers, and T. Clifford, Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonne, 1941-1991, Volume Two: Paintings on Canvas and Panel, New Haven and London, 2012, p. 112, no. P176 (illustrated).
J. Flam, K. Rogers, and T. Clifford, Motherwell: 100 Years, Milan, 2015, pp. 161 and 172 (illustrated).
incised with the artist's signature and dated 'Robert Motherwell 58' (upper right); signed again, inscribed, titled and dated again 'Robert Motherwell Spain, 1958 "SPANISH PAINTING, WITH THE FACE OF A DOG."' (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
37 1/8 x 75 ¼ in. (94.3 x 191.1 cm.)
Painted in 1958-1960.
