Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 116
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In White with Blue Hole
In White with Two Blue Holes
The America Cup
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
November 1972 (traveling), cat. no. 26,
color illus. p. 35 (pl. 10), illus. p. 74.
1964
Acrylic and pasted paper on
paperboard
30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
1964
Acrylic and pasted paper on
paperboard
30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
1964
Acrylic and pasted papers on
paperboard
30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
group exhibitions
Institute of Contemporary Art,
Boston, 1977.
inscriptions
Recto, lower left: RM 64
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 64
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 64
artist’s studio number
c64-1294
Verso (on backing board, reattached):
Robert Motherwell 1964
artist’s studio number
c64-5083
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
present owner
Private collection
present owner
Mr. and Mrs. David Rockefeller Jr.
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Liberman;
Brooklyn Museum, ca. 1991; [Christie’s,
New York, November 19, 1998, lot 595,
illus. (not sold)]; [Christie’s East, New
York, May 18, 1999, lot 198, illus.];
private collection, 1999
provenance
Mr. and Mrs. David Rockefeller Jr.,
1969
solo exhibitions
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, 1973.
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collages
solo exhibitions
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.,
1965, cat. no. 29.
solo exhibitions
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.,
1965, cat. no. 26.
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
1967 (circulating), Buenos Aires, cat.
no. 26; Caracas, cat. no. 81; Bogotá,
cat. no. 81; Mexico City, cat. no. 26.
references
O’Hara 1965b, color illus. p. 206.
Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, 1968, cat. no. 25.
references
Eagle 1967, color illus. p. 56 (installation view); Baker 1973, sec. 2, p. 12;
Pleynet 1989b, color illus. p. 111, as
The American Cup; Caws 1996b, p. 157.
comments
The title of this collage refers to the
America’s Cup yacht race (commonly
referred to as the America Cup). The
printed collage element near the lower
right corner of this work is from a “10m
x 2m10” roll of No. 29 canvas, probably
meant to reinforce the idea of canvas
sails that is evoked by the large sail-like
form that dominates the composition.
Motherwell watched the America’s
Cup race on television in 1964. He later
remarked on the context in which the
collage was created: “Was watching the
America Cup races at the time. [This
collage] was ultimately purchased by
