Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 124
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c168
Stedelijk Collage
1966
Oil and pasted papers on paperboard
40 x 26½ in. (101.6 x 67.3 cm)
inscriptions
Recto not signed, not dated
artist’s studio number
c66-574
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Knoedler &
Company, 2006; private collection,
2007
solo exhibitions
Art Center in Hargate, St. Paul’s School,
Concord, N.H., 1970, cat. no. 22, illus.
n.p. (in exhibition), as Stedelijk.
Art Museum, Princeton University,
N.J., 1973, cat. no. 8.
group exhibitions
J. L. Hudson Gallery, Detroit, 1966.
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collages
comments
Among the collage elements in this
work are three pieces of wrapping
paper from a package mailed to
Motherwell by the Stedelijk Museum,
Amsterdam. Motherwell’s 1965 retrospective exhibition at the Museum
of Modern Art, New York, traveled to
Europe in 1966, and the Stedelijk
Museum was the exhibition’s first
European venue, in January 1966.
The paper in the collage was most
likely from the package used to send
Motherwell copies of the Dutchlanguage catalogue for the exhibition.
c169
c169
Whatman Board Collage
1966
Oil, acrylic, pasted papers, and ink on
paperboard
39¾ x 27 in. (101 x 68.6 cm)
inscriptions
Recto not signed, not dated
present owner
Audrey and David Mirvish, Toronto
provenance
Audrey and David Mirvish, Toronto,
1973
group exhibitions
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba,
Canada, 1967, cat. no. 12.
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art,
Calif., 1973.
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s
University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada,
1993.
Haunch of Venison New York, 2008,
cat. no. 27, color illus. p. 72, erroneously as Whatman Board Collage,
PH-2-10.
references
Plottel 1983, illus. p. 137 (fig. 29).
comments
This collage takes its name from the
label at the upper left, which is from a
package of J. Whatman drawing boards.
It also incorporates a label from an
envelope sent by Art International magazine, which published major studies of
Motherwell’s work by H. H. Arnason in
its January and April 1966 issues.
