Summertime in Italy

1960

Robert Motherwell

Artist, American, 1915 - 1991

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil paint and black pencil on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    The Nancy Lee and Perry Bass Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (irreg.): 148.4 × 107.9 cm (58 7/16 × 42 1/2 in.)
    framed: 167.32 × 125.73 × 5.08 cm (65 7/8 × 49 1/2 × 2 in.)

  • Accession

    1999.55.4


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dedalus Foundation, New York; purchased by NGA, 1999.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2025

  • Helen Frankenthaler: Affinities, Influences, and Friendships, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2024-2025, 112, pl. 92. repro.

Bibliography

2024

  • Dreishpoon, Douglas, editor.Helen Frankenthaler: Painting Without Rules.Exh. cat. Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2024: pl. 16, 112, color repro.

Inscriptions

"R Motherwell 60" lower right margin, incised.

Markings

None.

Watermarks

None.

Wikidata ID

Q64629017


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