Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 152
c247
GRoup exhIbItIons
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,
Richmond, 1969 (shown in early state).
RefeRences
Andreae 1968, illus. p. 14 (in early
state); Kramer 1968, sec. D, p. 37;
Mellow 1969, illus. p. 56 (in early
state); Kramer 1973a, p. 344.
comments
The title refers to an early state of this
work, in which the horizontal form at
the bottom was painted green. In the
earliest state of this collage (reproduced
in Andreae 1968), the central white
element had not yet been added. The
painted white area at the bottom was
added after 1983; that area was still
green when a studio inventory photograph was taken in 1983.
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collages
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Untitled
Open with Figuration
French Collage
1968/ca. 1973
Acrylic, pasted papers, and crayon on
paper
30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
1968
Pasted papers on paper
30½ x 22½ in. (77.5 x 57.2 cm)
1968
Acrylic and pasted papers on board
6 x 8⅛ in. (15.2 x 20.6 cm)
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper left: RM
InscRIptIons
Recto, lower left: RM 68
aRtIst’s studIo numbeR
c68-592
Verso: 1968 R. Motherwell
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 68
aRtIst’s studIo numbeR
c68-1325
pResent owneR
Private collection, Milwaukee
pRovenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, Milwaukee, 2007
pResent owneR
Private collection
pRovenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private collection, 2007
aRtIst’s studIo numbeR
c68-1178
pResent owneR
Dedalus Foundation
pRovenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
solo exhIbItIons
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, 1973.
solo exhIbItIons
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
1970 (traveling), cat. no. 21.
solo exhIbItIons
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
1970 (traveling), cat. no. 14.
GRoup exhIbItIons
Russell Bowman Art Advisory,
Chicago, 2007.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
November 1972 (traveling), cat. no. 31,
illus. p. 79.
William Ehrlich Gallery, New York,
May 1979.
comments
The crayon lines were added to this
work around 1973.
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles,
2005, cat. no. 14, color illus. p. 5, as
Open with Figure.
comments
The title of this work refers to the
label from a watercolor block made by
Sennelier, Paris; it is probably the same
block that Motherwell used for a series
of paintings on paper (w272–w288).
