Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 160
c267
solo exhibitions
Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago,
December 2005 (traveling), cat. no. 7,
as Untitled (Gesture).
comments
The collage elements in this work are
not immediately apparent. They include
several different kinds of paper that
were pasted into the center of the composition and painted blue, prior to the
addition of the black gestural form.
c268
Gauloises
1970
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
paper
11¾ x 8¾ in. (29.8 x 22.2 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: R Motherwell 70
Verso: For dear Bernard Reis on his
75th birthday from his friend Bob
Motherwell May 1970
present owner
Mr. Igal Ahouvi
provenance
Bernard Reis, New York, 1970; [Sotheby
Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, May 17,
1979, lot 535, illus.]; private collection,
Boston, 1979; private collection; John
H. Surovek Gallery, Inc., Palm Beach,
Fla., 1982; private collection, 1983;
private collection, 1993; [Christie’s,
New York, November 19, 1997, lot 215,
illus.]; Crane Kalman Gallery, London,
1997; Igal Ahouvi, 2006
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collages
c268
group exhibitions
Crane Kalman Gallery at Art 30 Basel,
Switzerland, 1999 (traveling), cat. no. 47,
color illus. p. 46.
comments
The title of this work refers to the torn
Gauloises package that is used as a collage element. The verso inscription is to
Bernard Reis, a friend of Motherwell’s
since the early 1940s and his longtime
accountant.
c269
c269
Lightolier
1970
Acrylic and pasted papers on paper
11¾ x 8⅞ in. (29.8 x 22.5 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 70
artist’s studio number
c70-228
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Nathalie
Obadia, Paris, 2006; private collection,
2007
comments
The title of this work refers to the blue
Lightolier brand travel lamp package
that is used as one of the collage
elements.
