Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 154
c253
c253
Spoleto
1968
Acrylic, pasted paper, and graphite on
paper
30½ x 22½ in. (77.5 x 57.2 cm)
InscRIptIons
Recto, lower left: Robert Motherwell
68
Verso (on strainer, reattached)
[partially crossed out]: “spoleto” 1968
R. Motherwell “[illegible]” 1968
aRtIst’s studIo numbeR
c68-590
pResent owneR
Dedalus Foundation
pRovenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
solo exhIbItIons
Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, 1968, cat. no. 26, as
Spoleto. Collage.
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
1970 (traveling), cat. no. 9, as Festival.
142
collages
c254
Galerie im Erker, St. Gall, Switzerland,
1971 (traveling), cat. no. 24, illus. p. 41.
c254
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
November 1972 (traveling), cat. no. 36,
illus. p. 84.
1968/ca. 1973
Acrylic, pasted papers, crayon, and
graphite on board
30½ x 22⅜ in. (77.5 x 56.8 cm)
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London,
October 2008.
GRoup exhIbItIons
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,
Richmond, 1969, as Spoleto Collage.
RefeRences
Mattison et al. 2009, color illus. p. 44.
comments
The piece of bright red paper in this
collage has a rectangular U form, typical of the Open series, drawn on it in
pencil. (Pieces of the same red paper
also appear in c252, c254, and c258.)
This collage was used as the basis for
a screen print and poster for the 1968
Spoleto Festival of the Two Worlds
(Engberg and Banach 2003, no. 60).
Bowes & Bowes with Green
InscRIptIons
Recto, lower left: Robert Motherwell
68
aRtIst’s studIo numbeR
c68-1521
pResent owneR
Gert W. Munthe, Oslo
pRovenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Gert W.
Munthe, Oslo, 2009
solo exhIbItIons
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, 1973
(shown in early state).
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles,
2005, cat. no. 3.
GRoup exhIbItIons
Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago,
2004, cat. no. 9, cover color illus.
(detail).
comments
The large collage element in this
work is part of a mailing wrapper
from Bowes & Bowes booksellers in
Cambridge, England, postmarked
October 30, 1967. The small piece of
bright red paper is from the same sheet
as the red papers in c252, c253, and
c258. The vertical lines were added
around 1973.
