Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)
Dedalus Sketchbook: Untitled
signed with initials 'RM' (upper left); blindstamped with initials 'RM' (lower left)
sepia ink on paper
6 x 7¾ in. (15.2 x 19.6 cm.)
Executed in 1982.

Exhibited
New York, Visual Arts Museum, School of Visual Arts, Robert Motherwell: Drawings, March– April 1983 (as Summer Sketch No. 1).
New York, Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery, Cooper Union, Robert Motherwell: The Dedalus Sketchbook and Other Works in the Joycean Mode, November–Dcember 1988, no. 5.
Munich, Galerie Bernd Kluser, Robert Motherwell: A Dialogue with Literature, April–May 2001, p. 86 (illustrated in color).
Los Angeles, Manny Silverman Gallery, Robert Motherwell: Themes & Variations Including the Dedalus Sketchbook, November-December 2002, no. 1.

Literature
G. Drudi, Note romane a Robert Motherwell, Milan, 1984, p. 87 (illustrated).
G. Drudi, Robert Motherwell Notes Romaines, Paris, 1988, p. 87.
C. and J. Glenn, Robert Motherwell: The Dedalus Sketchbooks, New York, 1988, n.p., pl. 6 (illustrated in color).

Provenance
Ameringer McEnery Yohe, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner