Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 162
c273
comments
This work, dated 1971, anticipates the
collages that Motherwell would develop
in 1972, which contain a Gauloises cigarette package silhouetted against a
monochromatic ground. For more on
this extended series of works, see the
Comments for Gauloises with Scarlet
No. 1 (c290).
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, 1973.
c275
Suchard on Orange No. 1
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State
University, Kans., 1979.
Suchard on Orange No. 2
1971–72
Acrylic, pasted papers, and graphite on
Upson board
41 x 32¼ in. (104.1 x 81.9 cm)
inscriptions
Recto not signed, not dated
present owner
Unknown
provenance
Galerie Lawrence Rubin AG, Zurich,
1988; [Christie’s, New York, November
19, 1997, lot 230, illus. (not sold)];
[Christie’s, New York, November 14,
2001, lot 155, illus.]; Oak Brook
Bank, 2001; [Sotheby’s, New York,
May 11, 2006, lot 211, illus.]; unknown
owner, 2006; [Sotheby’s, New York,
November 15, 2007, lot 270, illus.];
unknown owner, 2007
solo exhibitions
Art Museum, Princeton University,
N.J., 1973, cat. no. 25.
collages
c275
c274
artist’s studio number
c71-1005
150
c274
references
Morgan 1997, p. 113, erroneously as
Suchard on Orange with Blue.
comments
This is the first numbered work in a
series whose title refers to the blue
Suchard Bittra Swiss chocolate wrapper
near the center of the composition.
The first three numbered works in this
series (see also c275 and c276) are
visible in their early states in Michael
Blackwood’s documentary Robert
Motherwell: Summer of 1971. Numbers 4
to 7 in the series were done in 1973
(c406–c409). The compositional format of the works in this series echoes
both the 1960 collage The French Line
(c124) and the Open series, and anticipates the 1972 German Line collages
(c352–c363).
1971–72
Acrylic, pasted papers, and graphite on
Upson board
41 x 32½ in. (104.1 x 82.6 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right, incised: Motherwell
72
present owner
Marilyn and Charles Baillie
provenance
Private collection, 1973; Marilyn and
Charles Baillie, 2006
solo exhibitions
Art Museum, Princeton University,
N.J., 1973, cat. no. 21.
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, 1973.
references
Franzke 1994, p. 11, color illus. p. 12
(fig. 13).
comments
This work is visible in an early state in
Michael Blackwood’s documentary
Robert Motherwell: Summer of 1971 (see
Filmography).
