Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 151
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Chalk Circle
1968
Pasted papers and ink on paper
30½ x 22 in. (77.5 x 55.9 cm)
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper left: RM
including the I.H. series of 1970 (see
w315–w339).
The title of this collage probably
refers to Bertolt Brecht’s play The
Caucasian Chalk Circle (German: Der
Kaukasische Kreidekreis), which was
performed at the Vivian Beaumont
Theatre in New York City in the spring
of 1966.
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Figuration on Blue
In Beige, Ultramarine, and
Green
1968
Acrylic and pasted paper on paper
30¼ x 22 in. (76.8 x 55.9 cm)
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 68
1968/after 1983
Acrylic and pasted papers on paper
29¾ x 21½ in. (75.6 x 54.6 cm)
aRtIst’s studIo numbeR
c68-427
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper left, incised and inscribed:
RM 68
pResent owneR
Dedalus Foundation
pResent owneR
Dedalus Foundation
aRtIst’s studIo numbeR
c68-1291; c68-3592; c68-3668
pRovenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
pRovenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
pResent owneR
Dedalus Foundation
comments
The central collage element in this
work is a torn fragment of a blackand-white proof of Motherwell’s 1967
lithograph 9: Untitled (Engberg and
Banach 2003, no. 56), to which a black
gestural form has been added. The
same print would be used in the Basque
Suite series of prints (Engberg and
Banach 2003, nos. 79–88), and in a
related group of paintings on paper,
solo exhIbItIons
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
1970 (traveling), cat. no. 11.
pRovenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
aRtIst’s studIo numbeR
c68-425
Galerie im Erker, St. Gall, Switzerland,
1971 (traveling), cat. no. 22, illus. p. 42.
solo exhIbItIons
Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, 1968, cat. no. 4 (shown in
early state).
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, 1969
(traveling), cat. no. 2 (shown in early
state).
Galerie im Erker, St. Gall, Switzerland,
1971 (traveling), cat. no. 20, color
illus. p. 32 (in exhibition); shown in
early state.
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