(Aberdeen, USA, 1915 – 1991 Provincetown)
Drawing # 11, 1959, monogrammed, titled on the reverse and inscribed INV. #: D59–528, ink and
wash on paper, 53.5 x 71 cm, framed

The work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the drawings of Robert Motherwell currently being prepared

Provenance:
Marisa Del Re Gallery, New York (acquired from the
above by the present owner in 1989)
Private Collection, USA

Exhibited:
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Robert Motherwell,
9 March - 4 April 1959
Durham, N. C., Duke University, Robert Motherwell: Works on Paper (circulated by the Museum of Modern Art, New York), 20 September - 11 October 1965
Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, 25 October - 22 November 1965
St. Joseph, Minnesota, College of St. Benedict,
30 November - 21 December 1965
Salt Lake City, University of Utah, 7–28 January 1966
San Antonio, Texas, White Memorial Museum,
13 February - 6 March 1966
Tampa, Library Gallery, University of South Florida, 21 March - 11 April 1966
Houston, Contemporary Arts Association, 27 April - 17 May 1966
Baltimore Museum of Art, 13 September - 16 October 1966
Bloomington, Indiana University Museum, 31 October - 20 November 1966
Boulder, University of Colorado, 5–26 December 1966
Riverside, University of California, 13 January - 5 February 1967
San Francisco Museum of Art, 20 February - 18 March 1967
California, Sacramento Stage College, 2–23 April 1967
New York, Marisa Del Re Gallery, 8 February – 4 March 1989, exh. cat.

Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art
could have come into existence, save as the consequence
to a most profound, relentless, unquenchable need.
Robert Motherwell