Name: Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)
Brand: Sea Lion with Red Stripe
Price: 30000.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)
Sea Lion with Red Stripe
signed with the artist's initials and dated 'RM 59' (upper right)
oil and printed paper collage on paper
29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm.)
Executed in 1959.

Gift of the artist to the present owner, 1960

H. H. Arnason, Robert Motherwell, New York, 1977, p. 54.
H. H. Arnason, Robert Motherwell, New York, 1982, p. 54.
“Bennington College Collection at the Williams College Museum of Art,” Journal of the Print World, vol. 14, no. 4, 1991, p. 28.
M. A. Caws, Robert Motherwell: What Art Holds, New York, 1996, p. 157.
J. Flam, K. Rogers and T. Clifford, eds., Robert Motherwell, Paintings and Collages, A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941-1991, Volume Three: Collages and Paintings on Paper and Paperboard, New Haven and London, 2012, p. 72, no. C94 (illustrated).

Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art, An Exhibition of the Work of Robert Motherwell, January 1963, no. 12 (illustrated).
Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Charles Hayden Memorial Library New Gallery, Robert Motherwell, February-Match 1963.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Cleveland Museum of Art; Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Collages of Robert Motherwell: A Retrospective Exhibition, November 1972-June 1973, p. 66, no. 18 (illustrated).
Williamston, Massachusetts, Williams College Museum of Art, Selections from the Collection of Bennington College, June-December 1991.

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Generally, in collages I only use things that happen to be in the studio. They represent familiarity and in a certain way domesticity. – Robert Motherwell