Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 155
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Provincetown: Stanley’s View
Orange Collage with Green
In Green with Gauloises
1968
Acrylic, pasted papers, and graphite on
paper
33¼ x 30¼ in. (84.5 x 76.8 cm)
1968
Acrylic and pasted paper on paper
30¾ x 22 in. (78.1 x 55.9 cm)
1968
Acrylic, pasted papers, and graphite on
paper
30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.9 cm)
InscRIptIons
Recto, center (on collage element):
RM 68
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper left: RM 68
aRtIst’s studIo numbeR
c68-1482; p68-1482
pResent owneR
Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown
pResent owneR
Dedalus Foundation
pRovenance
Stanley Kunitz, 1968; Fine Arts Work
Center, Provincetown, Mass., 2003
pRovenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
RefeRences
Goodyear 2003, p. 109.
comments
The title of this work refers to the poet
Stanley Kunitz (1905–2006), to whom
it was given as a birthday present and
to whom it is inscribed on the piece of
white paper at the center; Kunitz’s
birthday was July 29.
comments
An earlier state of this work, reminiscent of the 1968 Beside the Sea
series (w254–w261) and the Study in
Watercolor series (w262–w267), is
visible in the pentimenti. The green
paper collage element has a serrated
edge that suggests it was part of a
paper shopping bag.
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comments
The title of this work refers to part of a
Gauloises cigarette carton that is used
as a collage element, set next to a piece
of beige paper with the rectangular
U form typical of the Open series
drawn on it in pencil.
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper left: Robert Motherwell
68
pResent owneR
Collection of Constance and David
Clapp
pRovenance
Audrey and David Mirvish, Toronto,
1970; Constance and David Clapp
solo exhIbItIons
Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, 1968, cat. no. 15.
Marlborough Galleria d’Arte, Rome,
1969 (traveling).
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, 1973.
GRoup exhIbItIons
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,
Richmond, 1969.
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