Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 118
c153
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Robert Motherwell, September 1965
(traveling), New York, cat. no. 78, illus.
p. 41; Amsterdam, cat. no. 71, illus.
n.p.; Essen, cat. no. 71, erroneously as
In Blue and White with Calligraphie;
Turin, cat. no. 71, illus. p. 114
(pl. 54/B).
c153
Untitled
1964
Pasted paper and ink on paper
30⅝ x 22⅜ in. (77.8 x 56.8 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 64
artist’s studio number
c64-691
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
c154
c154
African Collage No. 1
1965
Oil and pasted papers on paperboard
39½ x 27 in. (100.3 x 68.6 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right, incised: RM
artist’s studio number
c60-559
present owner
Collection of the McNay Art Museum.
Museum purchase with the Helen and
Everett H. Jones Purchase Fund and
gift of the Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; McNay Art
Museum, San Antonio, Tex., 1996
106
collages
solo exhibitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Robert Motherwell:Works on Paper,
September 1965 (circulating).
group exhibitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
October 1968, cat. no. 47, as Untitled.
references
McNay Art Museum 2001, color illus.
p. 198.
comments
The title of this work may refer to the
masklike form of the central collage
element, as well as to its general resemblance to the shape of the continent of
Africa. At this time, Motherwell was
also working on his large-scale paintings Africa and Africa No. 2 (p338 and
p339), which he associated with the
formal inventiveness and spiritual force
