Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 170
c296
Images Gallery, Toledo, Ohio, 1974
(shown in early state), as Scarlet with
Gauloises #6.
group exhibitions
Acquavella Contemporary Art, New
York, 1975 (shown in early state).
references
Arnason 1977b, color illus. n.p.
(pl. 229, in early state, as Gauloises with
Scarlet No. 6); Pleynet 1989b, color
illus. p. 119 (in early state, as Gauloises
with Scarlet No. 6); Caws 2003, pp. 56,
169, color illus. p. 57 (ill. 41).
comments
The composition of this work was
slightly modified around October 1982,
when Motherwell painted the red
ground in a bit closer to the Gauloises
package.
c296
Scarlet with Gauloises Blue
No. 7
1972
Acrylic and pasted papers on Upson
board
24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right, incised [partially
obscured by framing mat]: RM [72]
present owner
Unknown
provenance
The artist
solo exhibitions
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
November 1972 (traveling), cat. no. 41,
illus. p. 89.
references
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
Bulletin 1972, p. 89, as In Scarlet with
Gauloises; Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston, Calendar 1972, n.p., as In
Scarlet with Gauloises; Supplément à la
Gazette des Beaux Arts 1973, p. 19, as
In Scarlet with Gauloises.
158
collages
c297
comments
Our reproduction comes from an
early color slide of this work. We do not
know whether this work still exists in
the form illustrated here.
c298
c297
Scarlet with Gauloises No. 8
1972
Acrylic and pasted papers on Upson
board
19½ x 15⅜ in. (49.5 x 39.1 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower left, incised: RM 72
present owner
Audrey and David Mirvish, Toronto
provenance
Audrey and David Mirvish, Toronto,
1973
solo exhibitions
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, 1973.
