Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 139
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In Green, with Ultramarine
and Ochre
In Green with Gauloises
Holland Collage with
Gauloises
Untitled
1967
Acrylic and pasted papers on paper
31¼ x 22¼ in. (79.4 x 56.5 cm), irreg.
1967
Acrylic and pasted papers on
paperboard
14 x 8½ in. (35.6 x 21.6 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: R Motherwell
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: RM 67
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM
artist’s studio number
c67-575
artist’s studio number
c67-390
artist’s studio number
c67-1176
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
present owner
Jerry and Linda Rubenstein
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Jerry and
Linda Rubenstein, 2004
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
solo exhibitions
Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, 1968, cat. no. 22.
group exhibitions
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,
Richmond, 1969.
comments
This work is atypical within
Motherwell’s oeuvre for the way in
which the blue collage element
extends significantly beyond the
paper support.
comments
The title of this work refers to the torn
Gauloises cigarette package that is used
as a collage element.
1967
Pasted papers on paper
29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm)
solo exhibitions
Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, 1968, cat. no. 18.
group exhibitions
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,
Richmond, 1969.
comments
The title of this work refers to the text
“made in holland” that is printed on
the rectangular piece of brown paper
and to the torn Gauloises cigarette
package above it.
1967
Acrylic and pasted papers on paper
30¼ x 22 in. (76.8 x 55.9 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower left: RM 67
artist’s studio number
c67-1506
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
comments
The striped collage element near the
center of this work is part of a paper
dress that had been bought by Helen
Frankenthaler, and which Motherwell
also used in three other collages in
1967 (c212–c214). In a 1975 interview,
Motherwell recalled how he came to
use fragments of the paper dress, which
had been a popular novelty item during
the mid-1960s: “I had forgotten that
fad. At that time, my wife bought one
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