Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 117
c150
David Rockefeller for his son, who
sailed on one of the yachts in those
trials” (unpublished annotations to
exhibition catalogue text for Museum
of Fine Arts, Houston, exh. cat. 1972;
see “Writings by the Artist,” in the
Bibliography).
The composition appears to have
been inspired by Matisse’s 1952 cutpaper work La Voile (The Sail; see
fig. 105 in volume 1), which also evokes
the image of a sailing boat, and
which was exhibited at the Museum
of Modern Art in 1961 in The Last
Works of Matisse: Large Cut Gouaches.
Motherwell saw La Voile there, and it
was illustrated in the catalogue, which
he owned; see also the 1977 collage,
America Cup II (c599).
In 1965, Motherwell used this work
as the basis for a benefit poster for the
Paris Review (Engberg and Banach
2003, no. 17).
c151
In White with Pink and Black
Rings
1964
Acrylic, pasted paper, and ink on
paperboard
29¾ x 21⅞ in. (75.6 x 55.6 cm)
c151
group exhibitions
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, 1974.
references
Art in Embassies 2008, color illus.
p. 13.
c152
c152
In Blue and White with
Calligraphy
1964
Acrylic, pasted papers, and ink on
paperboard
30 x 21¾ in. (76.2 x 55.2 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 64
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 64
present owner
Audrey and David Mirvish, Toronto
Verso (on crossbar, reattached): “in
blue + white with calligraphy”
provenance
Audrey and David Mirvish, Toronto,
1974
Verso (on backing board, reattached):
Robert Motherwell 1964
solo exhibitions
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.,
1965, cat. no. 24.
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Robert Motherwell, September 1965
(traveling), New York, cat. no. 82, illus.
p. 41; Amsterdam, cat. no. 73, illus.
n.p.; Essen, cat. no. 73; Turin, cat.
no. 73, illus. p. 115 (pl. 55/A).
artist’s studio number
c64-1477
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
solo exhibitions
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.,
1965, cat. no. 23.
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, 1973.
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