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Robert Motherwell (1915-1991). Pierrot's Hat, 1943. Watercolor, gouache, pasted papers, pasted glass button, and ink on ...
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Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)Pierrot's Hat, 1943
Watercolor, gouache, pasted papers, pasted glass button, and ink on paperboard
19-3/4 x 14-1/8 inches (50.2 x 35.9 cm)
Signed and dated in pencil lower center: Motherwell 43
Signed, dated, and inscribed verso: Robert Motherwell / NYC / 6-IV-43
PROVENANCE:
Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Chareau, circa 1944;
Dollie Chareau, 1950, by descent;
Private collection, 1967.
EXHIBITED:
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York, October 1949;
New Gallery, Bennington College, Vermont, 1959, cat. no. 5, listed as Collage;
Museum of Modern Art, New York (and elsewhere) "Robert Motherwell," September 1965, cat. no. 2;
LITERATURE:
Arnason, H. H., "On Robert Motherwell and His Early Work," Art International 10, no. 1, January 20, 1966, p. 23, illus. p., 25 (fig. 4), referred to in text and in illustration as Collage;
Wescher, Herta, translated by Robert E. Wolf, Collage, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1968, pp. 300-301;
Pleynet, Marcelin, "La Méthode de Robert Motherwell,"Tel Quel 71, no. 73, Autumn 1977, p. 189, as Collage;
Arnason, H. H., Robert Motherwell, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1982, p. 19, pl. 8, illustrated in color;
Mattison, Robert Saltonstall, "The Art of Robert Motherwell during the 1940s," Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, 1985, pp. 97-101, illus. n.p. (fig. 59, as Untitled);
Pleynet, Marcelin, "La Méthode de Robert Motherwell," in Les Etats-Unis de la peinture, Editions du Seuil, Paris, 1986, p. 71, as Collage;
Mattison, Robert Saltonstall, Robert Motherwell: The Formative Years, Studies in the Fine Arts: The Avant-Garde 56, UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1987, p. 80, illus. p. 84 (fig. 24, as Untitled);
Gildbert, Gregory Mark, "The Alternate Aesthetic: Robert Motherwell's Early Collages and the Formative Years of Abstract Expressionism," Ph.D. dissertation, State University of New Jersey, Rutgers, 1998, pp. 38-39, 93-94, illus. p. 518 (fig. 3).
Flam, Jack, Katy Rogers and Tim Clifford, Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941-1999, Volume III, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2012, p. 2, no. C1, illustrated in color.
More information about Robert Motherwell, also known as Motherwell, Robert, Motherwell, Robert Burns, Robert Motherwell.
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