Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 131
c186
and during the 1960s and 1970s he
was the source of many of the Gauloises
packages that appear in Motherwell’s
collages, including this one. This work
also contains a blank mailing label and
part of a blue mailing wrapper from
the Times Literary Supplement.
c186
Maritime Collage No. 3
1967
Acrylic, pasted papers, and ink on
board
12 x 9 in. (30.5 x 22.9 cm)
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 67
c187
exchanged with Stevenson for a plaster
bust of one of Motherwell’s forebears
that Stevenson had found in Scotland.
There are no numbers 1 and 2 in
the Maritime Collage “series,” but
Untitled (c185) was probably meant to
belong to that series.
c187
Draftsman
1967
Acrylic and pasted papers on paper
12 x 9 in. (30.5 x 22.9 cm)
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper left: RM 67
Verso (on backing board): “Draftsman”
Verso: “maRItIme collaGe #3” For
Robert Stevenson from Robert
Motherwell 1967
aRtIst’s studIo numbeR
c67-391
pResent owneR
Private collection
pResent owneR
Collection Bernard Jacobson Gallery,
London
pRovenance
Robert Stevenson, Cape Cod, Mass.,
1967; private collection, 1975;
[Christie’s, New York, September 13,
2006, lot 273, illus.]; private collection,
2006
pRovenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Leonard
Hutton Galleries, New York, 2007;
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London,
2007
comments
Robert Stevenson, to whom this work
is dedicated, owned the Chillingsworth
restaurant in Provincetown, which
Motherwell frequented. According to
the studio card for this work, it was
comments
This collage takes its title from the
blue collage element, a matchbook with
an advertisement for training as a
draftsman.
co lla ges
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