Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 166
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Chocmel and Gauloises
Chocmel
Mercurey
Untitled
1972
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
board
19¾ x 15¾ in. (50.2 x 40 cm)
1972
Acrylic and pasted paper on canvas
21½ x 18½ in. (54.6 x 47 cm)
1972
Acrylic and pasted paper on canvas
board
18 x 14 in. (45.7 x 35.6 cm)
1972
Acrylic and pasted papers on
particleboard
12¼ x 12 in. (31.1 x 30.5 cm)
InscRIptIons
Recto, lower right, incised: Motherwell
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InscRIptIons
Recto not signed, not dated
InscRIptIons
Recto, lower right, incised: Motherwell
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pResent owneR
Private collection
pRovenance
Erker-Galerie, Ltd., 1972; private
collection; Posner Gallery, Inc.; Pascal
de Sarthe Fine Art, ca. 1989; Knoedler
& Company, 1991; private collection,
1997
comments
This collage was created in St. Gall,
Switzerland, early in 1972. Its title
comes from the wrapper for Chocmel, a
Swiss chocolate candy, which is placed
above the torn Gauloises package.
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collages
InscRIptIons
Recto, lower right, incised: Motherwell
72
pResent owneR
Private collection
pRovenance
Erker-Galerie, Ltd., 1972; private collection; unknown owner; [Sotheby’s,
New York, May 15, 2008, lot 177, illus.];
private collection, 2008
GRoup exhIbItIons
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 1993.
comments
This collage was created in St. Gall,
Switzerland, early in 1972. The collage
element is a wrapper for Chocmel, a
Swiss chocolate candy.
pResent owneR
Private collection
pRovenance
Erker-Galerie, Ltd., 1972; private collection; Pascal de Sarthe Fine Art,
ca. 1996; private collection; [Sotheby’s,
New York, November 18, 1998, lot 254,
illus.]; private collection, 1998
comments
This collage was created in St. Gall,
Switzerland, early in 1972. Its title
refers to the label from a bottle of
Mercurey, a French Burgundy wine,
near the center.
Verso: Robert Motherwell St Gall
1972
pResent owneR
Private collection
pRovenance
Private collection, ca. 1972; private collection; Martin and Mimi Lipton, 1995;
private collection, 1998; private collection, ca. 2007
comments
This collage was created in St. Gall,
Switzerland, early in 1972. The collage
element at its center is part of a
Gauloises cigarette package.
