Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 171
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Gauloises on Scarlet No. 9
Scarlet with Gauloises No. 10
Scarlet with Gauloises No. 11
Scarlet with Gauloises No. 12
1972
Acrylic and pasted papers on Upson
board
20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
1972
Acrylic and pasted papers on Upson board
19½ x 15½ in. (49.5 x 39.4 cm)
1972–74
Acrylic and pasted papers on Upson
board
19½ x 15½ in. (49.5 x 39.4 cm)
1972
Acrylic and pasted papers on Upson
board
19¾ x 15¾ in. (50.2 x 40 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right, incised: RM 72
inscriptions
Recto, lower right, incised: RM 72
present owner
Stephens, Inc.
present owner
Permanent collection of the Wriston Art
Gallery, Lawrence University, Appleton,
Wis.
inscriptions
Recto, lower right, incised: RM 72
present owner
Collection of Robert F. and Patricia
Ross Weis
provenance
Private collection, New York, 1972;
[Christie’s, New York, November 18,
1981, lot 171, illus.]; Robert F. and
Patricia Ross Weis, 1981
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 72
present owner
Family of Mary A. Pengra
provenance
Mary A. Pengra, ca. 1972; Family of
Mary A. Pengra, ca. 1998
comments
According to the present owner of
this work, it is inscribed on the verso
as number 10 in the Gauloises with
Scarlet series and dated June 27, 1972;
but we do not know whether this inscription is in Motherwell’s hand. In the early
1970s, Motherwell traded this work for
his early painting Descent from the Cross
(see ew.xiii in volume 1), which was then
owned by his first cousin Mary Pengra.
According to a letter from a close relative, “He did not want that figurative
painting out there as part of the official
legacy” (Dedalus Foundation Archives).
provenance
Private collection, 1973; Mr. and Mrs.
Frederick A. Embry, 1975; private collection, 1978; Barbara Mathes Gallery, New
York, 1980; Stephens, Inc., 1982
solo exhibitions
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Houston, 1974.
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin,
Tex., 1975.
provenance
Private collection, 1974; Wriston Art
Gallery, Lawrence University, Appleton,
Wis., 1980
solo exhibitions
Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit, 1972,
erroneously as Scarlet and Gauloises
No. 25.
Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City,
Mo., 1978.
group exhibitions
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, 1988,
color illus. p. 87, as Scarlet with Gauloises.
references
Melcher 1978, p. 3.
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