Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 134
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Black Oval with Gauloises
[ Untitled (Black Gesture with
Gauloises)]
First Love
1967
Acrylic and pasted papers on paper
30⅛ x 22¼ in. (76.5 x 56.5 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: RM 67
artist’s studio number
c67-1493
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2006
group exhibitions
Art Gallery, Ball State University,
Muncie, Ind., 1971, illus. n.p.
Galerie Contemporaine du Musée
d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain,
Nice, France, 2005, cover color illus.,
color illus. p. 51.
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collages
1967
Pasted papers and ink on paper
22 x 17 in. (55.9 x 43.2 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: RM 67
artist’s studio number
c67-3300
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
comments
The paper support for this work is a
black-and-white proof of a 1967 lithograph, 9: Untitled (Engberg and Banach
2003, no. 56). The black oval form may
have been added around 1970, when
Motherwell was working on the I.H.
series.
1967
Acrylic and pasted paper on paper
30¾ x 22 in. (78.1 x 55.9 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 67
artist’s studio number
c67-429
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
solo exhibitions
Harcus Krakow Gallery, Boston, 1980,
cat. no. 19.
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles,
November 2002, cat. no. 47, as Untitled
(Ochre Calligraphy, Piece of Litho, Black).
comments
The collage element in this work is
torn from a proof of a 1962 lithograph,
The Poet I (Engberg and Banach
2003, no. 6). This is the first time that
Motherwell incorporated a fragment
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of one of his own prints in a collage, a
practice that would become a dominant
feature of his collages in the 1980s.
The title of this collage probably
refers to the title of a section in Part 1
of the Danish philosopher Søren
Kierkegaard’s Either/Or (1843).
