Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 137
c204
c203
c203
c204
c205
Régie Française
Untitled
Country Life No. 1
1967
Acrylic and pasted papers on paper
30½ x 22⅜ in. (77.5 x 56.8 cm)
1967
Acrylic and pasted papers on paper
30¼ x 22¼ in. (76.8 x 56.5 cm)
1967
Acrylic and pasted papers on paper
30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper left: R Motherwell/67
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper left: R Motherwell 1967
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper left: R Motherwell/67
aRtIst’s studIo numbeR
c67-1489
aRtIst’s studIo numbeR
c67-1483
aRtIst’s studIo numbeR
c67-404
pResent owneR
Private collection
pResent owneR
Private collection
pResent owneR
Dedalus Foundation
pRovenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; [Christie’s,
New York, November 11, 2004, lot 154,
illus.]; private collection, 2004; private
collection, 2005; private collection,
2007; private collection, 2007
pRovenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2006
pRovenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
comments
The title of this collage refers to La
Régie Française des Tabacs, the French
national tobacco company, whose name
appears on the Gauloises carton.
comments
The central collage element in this
work is a torn Gauloises cigarette
package.
GRoup exhIbItIons
Marlborough Galleria d’Arte, Rome,
1972, cat. no. 22, illus. n.p.
c205
RefeRences
Baker 1973, illus. sec. 2, p. 12.
comments
The white paper with the green-andwhite label near the center of this collage is a mailing envelope from Country
Life magazine. Motherwell used such
envelopes in several other collages (see
the Comments for c188), but this is the
only one that is given a number, as if
part of a series.
solo exhIbItIons
Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, 1968, cat. no. 17.
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
1970 (traveling), cat. no. 8.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
November 1972 (traveling), cat. no. 28,
illus. p. 76.
GRoup exhIbItIons
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,
Richmond, 1969.
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