Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 105
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New Gallery, Charles Hayden Memorial
Library, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, 1963.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.,
1965, cat. no. 17, as Sky and Pelican.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
November 1972 (traveling), cat. no. 23,
illus. p. 71.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1985
(traveling), cat. no. 74.
group exhibitions
Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach,
Fla., 1974, cat. no. 51.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
September 1976 (traveling), illus. p. 353
(fig. 310).
Yale University Art Gallery, New
Haven, Conn., 2002, cat. no. 34, color
illus. p. 16 (pl. 8), illus. p. 22 (detail).
references
Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin
1964, p. 50; Arnason 1966b, p. 37;
Stebbins 1976, p. 350, illus. p. 353
(fig. 310); Arnason 1977b, p. 64, illus.
p. 64 (pl. 39), referred to in text and in
illus. as Sky and Pelican; Arnason 1982,
p. 64, illus. p. 64 (pl. 56); Flam 1991,
color illus. n.p. (pl. 57).
comments
The title of this work alludes to the
label from a bottle of Pelikan drawing
ink at the upper left. This collage anticipates the Beside the Sea works of the
following year.
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Fusains Superieurs
1961
Oil and pasted paper on paper
29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM
present owner
Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection,
Berlin
BA-CA Kunstforum, Vienna, 2006,
cat. no. 93, color illus. p. 169.
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 2009.
comments
This work takes its title from the pasted
paper element at the upper left, which
is from a box of J. M. Paillard vine
charcoal sticks that reads “50 fusains
superieurs” (50 Superior Charcoal
Sticks).
provenance
Unknown owner, ca. 1962; [Christie’s,
New York, May 13, 1999, lot 391, illus.];
Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch, Berlin, 1999
solo exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York,
December 1962, cat. no. 11, illus. n.p.
group exhibitions
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice,
2005.
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