Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 142
c218
c219
c218
c219
c220
[ Untitled (In Brown, Red and
Light Blue)]
Untitled
Blotting Paper Collage
1967
Acrylic, pasted paper, and charcoal on
paper
14½ x 11½ in. (36.8 x 29.2 cm)
1967
Acrylic, pasted paper, and charcoal on
paper
37¼ x 23⅜ in. (94.6 x 59.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: RM 67
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: RM 67
artist’s studio number
c67-2853
artist’s studio number
c67-1537; c67-5098
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
present owner
Renate Ponsold Motherwell
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
provenance
Renate Ponsold Motherwell
comments
The piece of blue-gray paper at the left
center of this collage comes from the
same sheet as those in c216–c218. It
appears in a November 1967 photograph of Motherwell’s studio taken by
Ugo Mulas (see fig. 112 in volume 1).
solo exhibitions
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
November 1972 (traveling), cat. no. 29,
illus. p. 77.
1967
Acrylic, pasted paper, charcoal, and
graphite on paper
24 x 18 in. (61 x 45.7 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM
artist’s studio number
c63-497
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, c217,
and c219.
Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1976
(traveling), cat. no. 34, illus. p. 107.
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de
Paris, 1977.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo,
1983 (traveling), cat. no. 46, color illus.
p. 87; not shown in Washington, D.C.
130
collages
c220
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, 1984, cat. no. 139.
references
Baker-Carr 1975, color illus. p. 41;
Arnason 1976, pp. 13, 25; Arnason
1977b, pp. 73, 83, color illus. n.p.
(pl. 188); Arnason 1982, pp. 73, 83,
color illus. p. 161 (pl. 227); Flam
1991, color illus. n.p. (pl. 83).
comments
This work is contemporaneous with the
earliest paintings in the Open series.
An early state of it is visible (on a wall,
next to In Blue, p398) in a photograph
of Motherwell’s studio taken by Ugo
Mulas, in November 1967.
