Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 143
c221
c222
c223
c223
c221
c222
Untitled
La Cuisinière
1967
Acrylic and pasted papers on paper
11¾ x 9 in. (29.8 x 22.9 cm)
1967/ca. 1973
Pasted paper and crayon on paperboard
39¾ x 27 in. (101 x 68.6 cm)
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM
InscRIptIons
Recto, lower right: RM 67
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper left: RM 67
Verso: For Ernie on his 35th
birthday RM
aRtIst’s studIo numbeR
c67-1278
aRtIst’s studIo numbeR
c67-1097
pResent owneR
Kafka Family Collection
pResent owneR
Dedalus Foundation
pResent owneR
Private collection
pRovenance
Kafka Family Collection, 1967
pRovenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
comments
The collage element in this work is a
torn Gauloises cigarette package. The
dedication on the verso is to Ernest
Kafka, a psychoanalyst friend of
Motherwell’s.
solo exhIbItIons
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
1967 (circulating), Buenos Aires, cat.
no. 39, illus. n.p.; Caracas, cat. no. 94,
illus. n.p.; Bogotá, cat. no. 94; Mexico
City, cat. no. 39; shown in early state.
pRovenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2008
Art Center in Hargate, St. Paul’s
School, Concord, N.H., 1970, cat.
no. 25 (shown in early state).
GRoup exhIbItIons
Reese Palley Gallery, San Francisco,
1968 (shown in early state).
comments
The collage element in this work is
a shopping bag from La Cuisinière,
a kitchen supply store located at 903
Madison Avenue, New York. The
crayon lines were added around 1973.
In White with Blue Rectangle
1967/ca. 1973
Pasted papers and crayon on paper
30¼ x 22 in. (76.8 x 55.9 cm)
solo exhIbItIons
Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, 1968, cat. no. 19 (shown in
early state).
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
1970 (traveling), cat. no. 19 (shown in
early state).
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, 1973
(shown in early state).
co lla ges
131
