Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 120
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Byrrh
1964
Oil, pasted papers, and charcoal on
paperboard
39¾ x 27 in. (101 x 68.6 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right, incised: RM
artist’s studio number
c65-561
present owner
Collection of Carol and Stephen Shey,
Gainesville, Fla.
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Carol and
Stephen Shey, Gainesville, Fla., 2007
solo exhibitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
1967 (circulating), Buenos Aires, cat.
no. 29; Caracas, cat. no. 84; Bogotá,
cat. no. 84; Mexico City, cat. no. 29.
Art Center in Hargate, St. Paul’s
School, Concord, N.H., 1970,
cat. no. 8, illus. n.p. (in exhibition).
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collages
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Art Museum, Princeton University,
N.J., 1973, cat. no. 44.
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group exhibitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
January 1965 (circulating), Rotterdam,
cat. no. 88; Oslo, cat. no. 35; Stockholm,
cat. no. 35.
1965
Acrylic and pasted papers on
paperboard
30 x 20 in. (76.2 x 50.8 cm)
Reese Palley Gallery, San Francisco,
1968.
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art,
University of Florida, Gainesville, 2008,
cat. no. 75, color illus. p. 181.
comments
The title of this work refers to the multiple images of the label from Byrrh, a
French apéritif wine, near the center.
Call Steve
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM
artist’s studio number
c67-576
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
solo exhibitions
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles,
November 2002, cat. no. 49.
Rosenbaum Contemporary, Gallery
Center, Boca Raton, Fla., 2006.
group exhibitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
January 1965 (circulating), Rotterdam,
cat. no. 89; Oslo, cat. no. 36; Stockholm,
cat. no. 36 (erroneously as Ring Steve).
comments
The collage element at the center of
this work was torn from a painting on
paper by Motherwell; it is inscribed
with various notes, including a reminder
to “Call Steve”—a reference to Steven
Weil, then at the Marlborough-Gerson
Gallery. The entire inscription reads:
“Call Steve dimensions + titles +
dates + media of Rubin + Mayer (?)
pictures S E #102 Acrylic on canvas
S. in Italy #10 oil on linen Liberté
toute entière liberty wholly complete.”
