Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 132
c188
c188
Country Life
1967
Acrylic, pasted papers, and graphite on
paper
30½ x 22¼ in. (77.5 x 56.5 cm)
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper left: RM 67
aRtIst’s studIo numbeR
c67-1496
pResent owneR
Private collection
pRovenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2003
RefeRences
Volboudt 1973b, p. 84.
comments
The title of this work refers to part of
an envelope with a mailing label
(postmarked August 10, 1967) from
Country Life, an English magazine that
Motherwell was especially interested
in at this time. In the catalogue to
his 1972 collage retrospective at the
120
collages
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
Motherwell wrote: “Around this time,
I began to dream of a country studio—
New York swallowed my time and
energies—but near to either London
or New York, and so subscribed to
the British Country Life which carries
numerous photographs of country
places for let or sale (I ended up in
Greenwich, Connecticut in January
1970 after 30 years in New York)”
(Motherwell in Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston, exh. cat. 1972, p. 76).
Motherwell used Country Life mailing
labels in three other collages (c180,
c205, and c212).
c189
c190
c189
c190
Collage
In Blue and Ochre with
Gauloises
1967
Acrylic and pasted papers on paper
30¼ x 22 in. (76.8 x 55.9 cm)
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper left: R. Motherwell/67
pResent owneR
Smith College Museum of Art,
Northampton, Mass. Gift of the Artist,
1967:74
pRovenance
Smith College Museum of Art,
Northampton, Mass., 1967
solo exhIbItIons
Smith College Museum of Art,
Northampton, Mass., 1996.
comments
The collage element in this work is part
of a package from Gauloises cigarettes.
1967
Acrylic and pasted paper on paper
30⅝ x 22½ in. (77.8 x 57.2 cm)
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper left: R Motherwell/67
aRtIst’s studIo numbeR
c67-591
pResent owneR
Private collection
pRovenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private collection, 2004; [Christie’s, New York,
May 12, 2005, lot 296, illus. (not sold)]
solo exhIbItIons
Art Museum, Princeton University,
N.J., 1973, cat. no. 45, illus. p. 74.
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London,
2003, cat. no. 13.
comments
The title of this collage refers to the
torn Gauloises cigarette package that is
pasted near the upper right.
