Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 163
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Suchard on Orange No. 3
1971–72
Acrylic, pasted papers, and graphite on
Upson board
40½ x 32 in. (102.9 x 81.3 cm)
comments
This work is visible in an early state
in Michael Blackwood’s documentary
Robert Motherwell, which was filmed
during the summer of 1971 (see
Filmography).
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Matte Medium
1972/ca. 1989
Acrylic, charcoal, graphite, and pasted
canvas on canvas board
37½ x 25 in. (95.3 x 63.5 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right, incised: RM 72
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 72
present owner
Fisher Collection, New York
artist’s studio number
c72-1236
provenance
Private collection, ca. 1973; Fisher
Collection, New York, 1993
present owner
Private collection
solo exhibitions
Knoedler & Company, New York,
February 1993, cat. no. 2, erroneously
as The German Line #3 (or Suchard On
Orange #3).
group exhibitions
Knoedler & Company, New York,
June 1993, cat. no. 7, erroneously as
The German Line No. 3 (or Suchard on
Orange No. 3).
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991;
Hackett|Mill, San Francisco, 2002;
private collection, 2005
solo exhibitions
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
November 1972 (traveling), cat. no. 39,
illus. p. 87; shown in early state.
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de
Paris, 1977 (shown in early state).
group exhibitions
Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San
Francisco, 2003, cover color illus.
(detail), color illus. p. 9.
references
Pleynet 1989b, color illus. p. 118 (in
early state); Caws 1996b, p. 161, illus.
p. 163; Caws 2003, p. 170, color illus.
p. 170 (ill. 121).
comments
The canvas collage element near the
lower right center of this work contains
three vertical lines drawn in charcoal.
Each line has a notation written
under it in the artist’s hand: “Krylon”;
“Krylon + matte medium”; and “matte
medium.” These are notations about
the different Krylon brand fixatives
Motherwell was testing on the charcoal
lines. The blues at the top and bottom
of the composition were added before
November 1989, when the work was
consigned to Knoedler & Company.
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City,
1991 (traveling), cat. no. 43, color illus.
p. 51.
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