Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 141
c215
c215
c216
[ Untitled (Wednesday 11
October 1967)]
Picayune
1967
Oil, pasted paper, and charcoal on
paper
26 x 20 in. (66 x 50.8 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left, incised and
inscribed: RM
1967
Acrylic, pasted papers, and charcoal
on paper
24 x 18 in. (61 x 45.7 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM
artist’s studio number
c68-1238
present owner
Private collection
present owner
Unknown
provenance
Unknown owner; private collection;
private collection, ca. 1989
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private collection, 2004; [Sotheby’s, New York,
May 16, 2007, lot 144, illus.]; unknown
owner, 2007
comments
The collage element in this work is a
calendar block page dated Wednesday,
October 11, 1967.
solo exhibitions
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de
Paris, 1977.
Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago,
December 2005 (traveling), cat. no. 2.
references
Griggs 2006, illus. sec. D, p. 3.
c216
comments
The printed collage element in this
work is from a package of Picayune
cigarettes. The piece of blue-gray paper
at the upper center is from the same
sheet as the pieces of blue-gray paper
used in c217–c219. This work is seen
in progress in a photograph of
Motherwell’s studio taken by Ugo
Mulas in November 1967 (see fig. 112
in volume 1).
c217
c217
[ Untitled (Composition in
Grey)]
1967
Acrylic, pasted paper, and graphite on
paper
22 x 14 in. (55.9 x 35.6 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right, incised: RM
artist’s studio number
c63-498
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
comments
This work is seen in progress in a
November 1967 photograph of
Motherwell’s studio taken by Ugo
Mulas (see fig. 112 in volume 1).
Pieces from the same sheet of bluegray paper also appear in c216, c218,
and c219.
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