Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 181
c329
c329
Gauloises on Yellow No. 1
1972/1983
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
board
30 x 15 in. (76.2 x 38.1 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right, incised: RM 72
artist’s studio number
c72-245
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2006
solo exhibitions
Art Museum, Princeton University,
N.J., 1973, cat. no. [26 or 28] (shown in
early state), as Gauloises on Yellow.
title and seen in photographs of
that time (studio inventory photo
no. ph 58-6); the blues were added
in 1983.
Both this work and Gauloises on
Yellow No. 2 (c330) were shown without
numbers at Princeton in 1973; we are
not sure which number in the catalogue
was assigned to this work.
c330
c330
Gauloises on Yellow No. 2
1972
Acrylic and pasted papers on board
29¼ x 14½ in. (74.3 x 36.8 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower left: RM 72
artist’s studio number
7655
taken around 1973 (studio inventory
photo no. ph 58-5). We do not know
whether this work still exists in the
form illustrated here.
Both this work and Gauloises on
Yellow No. 1 (c329) were shown without
numbers at Princeton in 1973; we are
not sure which number in the catalogue
was assigned to this work.
present owner
Unknown
provenance
The artist
solo exhibitions
Art Museum, Princeton University,
N.J., 1973, cat. no. [26 or 28], as
Gauloises on Yellow.
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco,
1973, cat. no. 17.
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco,
1973, cat. no. 16 (shown in early state).
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco,
1975.
comments
The painted area surrounding the
Gauloises package in this collage was
originally all yellow, as reflected in the
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, 1976.
comments
Our reproduction comes from a blackand-white photograph of this work
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