Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 122
c162
c162
I Ching
1966
Acrylic, pasted paper, and graphite on
canvas board
16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 66
Recto, lower right [oriented sideways]:
[RM 58]
Verso (on backing board): I Ching
artist’s studio number
c64-80
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2007
solo exhibitions
Galleria d’Arte il Gabbiano, Rome,
2006, cat. no. 6, color illus. p. 18.
comments
The collage element in this work was
torn from an unknown 1958 painting
on paper by Motherwell, the signature
110
collages
from which can be seen, turned sideways, at the lower right. Another part of
that same painting on paper appears in
Untitled (c163). The title of this collage
refers to the Chinese classic I Ching
(Book of Changes).
c163
c164
c163
c164
Untitled
In Black with Pink
1966
Acrylic and pasted paper on cardboard
16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5 cm)
1966
Oil and pasted papers on canvas board
20 x 15¾ in. (50.8 x 40 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower left: RM 66
inscriptions
Recto not signed, not dated
artist’s studio number
c66-1266
Verso not seen [“signed, dated, titled on
reverse,” per document in Dedalus
Foundation Archives]
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2003
comments
The large painted collage element
appears to be torn from a 1958 work
on paper, as in I Ching (c162).
present owner
The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The William S. Paley Collection
(spc24.1990)
provenance
William S. Paley, 1970; Museum of
Modern Art, New York
group exhibitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1992,
cat. no. 48, color illus. p. 95, illus. p. 164.
comments
The piece of torn blue paper in this work
has an ink drawing on it, similar in style
to that seen on a fragment of the same
sheet of paper in Half and Half (c130).
