Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 135
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Untitled
Torino Collage
1967
Acrylic and pasted papers on paper
24 x 19 in. (61 x 48.3 cm)
1967
Acrylic and pasted papers on paper
30¼ x 22¼ in. (76.8 x 56.5 cm)
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 67
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 67
aRtIst’s studIo numbeR
c67-1870
pResent owneR
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner
Hempel Jr.
pResent owneR
Dedalus Foundation
pRovenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
solo exhIbItIons
Galerie Lelong, Paris, 2007.
comments
The collage element in this work is
a package for Player’s Navy Cut
cigarettes.
pRovenance
Mr. Gardiner Hempel, 1969; Mr. and
Mrs. Gardiner Hempel Jr., 1994
solo exhIbItIons
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
1967 (circulating), Buenos Aires, cat.
no. 37; Caracas, cat. no. 92, illus. n.p.;
Bogotá, cat. no. 92; Mexico City, cat.
no. 37.
Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, 1974,
cat. no. 45, illus. n.p.
GRoup exhIbItIons
Reese Palley Gallery, San Francisco,
1968.
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comments
The brown wrapping paper in this
collage is from the Museo Civico di
Torino, where Motherwell’s 1965
Museum of Modern Art retrospective
was shown in October 1966. The label
is addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner
Hempel; Mr. Hempel was chairman
of the board of the San Francisco Art
Institute and a prominent collector.
The package, postmarked January 20,
1967, was probably used to wrap the
Hempels’ copy of the catalogue from
the Turin exhibition.
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Silvers of Paris
1967
Acrylic and pasted paper on paper
30¼ x 22½ in. (76.8 x 57.2 cm)
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 67
pResent owneR
Private collection
pRovenance
Private collection, 1969; [Sotheby Parke
Bernet, Inc., New York, November 8,
1979, lot 850, illus.]; private collection,
1979
GRoup exhIbItIons
Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum,
San Antonio, Tex., 1969.
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum,
South Hadley, Mass., 1973, cat. no. 21.
comments
This collage was made during the summer of 1967 in Provincetown. The title
refers to the beige paper near the center,
which is a mailing wrapper (postmarked
June 27, 1967) from a shop named
Silvers of Paris.
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