Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 167
c289
c288
c289
Untitled
1972
Acrylic and pasted papers on
particleboard
12¼ x 12 in. (31.1 x 30.5 cm)
inscriptions
Recto not signed, not dated
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.
c290
Gauloises with Scarlet
group exhibitions
CDS Gallery, New York, October 1982.
1972/1982
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
14 x 10 in. (35.6 x 25.4 cm)
references
Zimmer 1987, sec. 23, p. 34; Caws
1996b, illus. p. 160, color illus. n.p.
inscriptions
Recto, lower right, incised: RM
comments
This collage was the first work in the
Gauloises with Scarlet series, in which
the titles vary somewhat; they are sometimes given as Scarlet with Gauloises,
Gauloises on Scarlet, and so forth.
Subsequent works in the series were
given numbers; see the Comments for
Gauloises with Scarlet No. 1 (c290).
Around October 1982, Motherwell
painted the red ground in a bit closer to
the Gauloises package.
1972/1982
Acrylic and pasted papers on Upson
board
20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
Verso: Robert Motherwell 11 Feb 1972
artist’s studio number
c72-289
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2003
solo exhibitions
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1985
(traveling); shown in Greenwich only.
Gauloises with Scarlet No. 1
inscriptions
Recto, lower right, incised: RM 72
Verso: Robert Motherwell 19 June
1972 #1
artist’s studio number
c72-240
present owner
Marilyn and Charles Baillie
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; [Sotheby’s,
New York, November 13, 2003, lot 188,
illus.]; Chad Leat, New York, 2003;
[Sotheby’s, New York, November 15,
co lla ges
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