Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 113
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group exhibitions
Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York,
1990, cat. no. 57, color illus. n.p.
references
Wilmerding 1973, illus. p. 329; Arnason
1977b, p. 65; Arnason 1982, p. 65.
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Cambridge Collage
1963
Oil, gouache, graphite, and pasted
papers on paperboard
40 x 27⅛ in. (101.6 x 68.9 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 63
Recto, lower right [painted over]: [RM]
present owner
Private collection, New York
provenance
Private collection, 1967; [Christie’s,
New York, May 8, 1984, lot 18, illus.];
private collection, 1984; private
collection, New York, 2007
solo exhibitions
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.,
1965, cat. no. 20.
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Robert Motherwell, September 1965
(traveling), New York, cat. no. 72;
Amsterdam, cat. no. 65, illus. n.p.;
Essen, cat. no. 65; Turin, cat. no. 65,
illus. p. 109 (pl. 49).
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references
Edgar 1965, cover color illus.; Hunter
1972, illus. p. 223 (pl. 408).
comments
The brown wrapping paper at the center of this collage contains a mailing
label from Bowes & Bowes booksellers
in Cambridge, England; it is addressed
to Motherwell at the Villa Della Grazie
in Alassio, Italy, where he spent part of
the summer of 1960.
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Untitled
1963–64
Oil, acrylic, pasted papers, and charcoal
on paperboard
40 x 27 in. (101.6 x 68.6 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 64
present owner
Leslie Feely Fine Art, LLC, New York
provenance
Jacques Kaplan, ca. 1964; Leslie Feely
Fine Art, LLC, New York, 2008
group exhibitions
Allan Stone Gallery, New York, 2002.
Katonah Museum of Art, N.Y., 2004,
color illus. n.p.
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco,
2009.
comments
This is the fourth collage in which
Motherwell used a piece of mailing
wrapper from La Nouvelle Revue
française as the main collage element.
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