Lot Essay
This drawing is an illustration for a proposed book, The Fables of La Fontaine.
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Property from the Penny and Elton Yasuna Collection
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)
The Cat - of "The Weasel, Little Rabbit, + Cat"
Details
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)
The Cat - of "The Weasel, Little Rabbit, + Cat"
titled 'The Cat - of "The Weasel, Little Rabbit, + Cat"' (along the bottom)
brush and ink and collage on paper
14½ x 7½ in. (37 x 19 cm.)
Executed circa 1945
The Cat - of "The Weasel, Little Rabbit, + Cat"
titled 'The Cat - of "The Weasel, Little Rabbit, + Cat"' (along the bottom)
brush and ink and collage on paper
14½ x 7½ in. (37 x 19 cm.)
Executed circa 1945
Provenance
Kootz Gallery, New York.
Exhibited
St. Petersburg, Florida, Salvador Dali Museum; Chicago, The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art; Dennis, Massachusetts, Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Surrealism in America During the 1930s and 1940s, November 1998-September 2000, p. 75 (illustrated).