Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 114
c144
Unlike the first three, which were done
in 1960 (see c104–c106), and another
done in 1973 (c384), this one was not
given a series title and number. An
early state of this collage appears in a
color slide of Motherwell’s studio taken
in June 1963.
c145
c144
c145
In White with Four Legs
Wadsworth Atheneum Collage
1964
Acrylic, pasted papers, and ink on
paperboard
30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
1964
Oil, pasted papers, and ink on
paperboard
30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 64
inscriptions
Recto, lower left: RM 64
present owner
Private collection
present owner
Audrey and David Mirvish, Toronto
provenance
Joseph S. Iseman, 1965; Knoedler &
Company, 1983; private collection,
ca. 1999
provenance
Audrey and David Mirvish, Toronto,
1974
solo exhibitions
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.,
1965, cat. no. 22.
group exhibitions
Knoedler & Company, New York,
September 1991, cat. no. 7.
solo exhibitions
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, 1973.
group exhibitions
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba,
Canada, 1967, cat. no. 11, illus. n.p.
references
Art in Embassies 1966, illus. p. 37,
erroneously as Pop and Op Art.
comments
Motherwell used this work as the basis
for his first collage print, Untitled
(Engberg and Banach 2003, no. 16),
102
collages
made in 1964 for the portfolio Ten
Works x Ten Painters, published by the
Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford,
Connecticut.
