Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 128
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comments
The composition of this collage is
dominated by a mailing wrapper
from Bowes & Bowes booksellers in
Cambridge, England, postmarked
February 20, 1967.
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Berggruen Collage
1967
Acrylic and pasted papers on
paperboard
40 x 27 in. (101.6 x 68.6 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right, incised: RM
artist’s studio number
c67-573
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
solo exhibitions
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
November 1972 (traveling), cat. no. 27,
color illus. p. 37 (pl. 11), illus. p. 75.
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collages
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group exhibitions
Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven,
the Netherlands, 1967 (traveling),
Eindhoven, cat. no. 31, illus. p. 39;
Frankfurt, cat. no. 30, illus. p. 39.
references
Motherwell in Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston, exh. cat. 1972, p. 75; BakerCarr 1975, color illus. p. 38; Pleynet
1989b, pp. 25, 57, color illus. p. 114;
Caws 1996b, pp. 129, 131, 139, illus.
p. 138; Thierolf 2002, p. 330, illus.
p. 330 (fig. 2).
comments
The collage element at the center of
this work is the wrapping paper from
the package used to ship Motherwell
copies of the catalogue for his 1961
collage exhibition at Berggruen &
Cie, Paris; it is addressed to his
New York home and is postmarked
November 1961.
In 1972 Motherwell remarked
about this collage, “I always felt
wrongly somewhat like a rejected lover
about Paris. Heinz Berggruen alone
offered me a Paris exhibition, and a
magnificent catalogue done by the
pochoir process. The paper in the collage is the wrapping the catalogues
arrived in. The collage is meant, among
other things, as a kind of commemoration” (Motherwell in Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston, exh. cat. 1972, p. 75).
