Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 185
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Gauloises on Blue No. 1
Ultramarine with Gauloises
Painting with Gauloises Bleu
1972
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
board
23½ x 10 in. (59.7 x 25.4 cm)
1972
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
board
24 x 10 in. (61 x 25.4 cm)
InscRIptIons
Recto, lower right, incised: RM 72
InscRIptIons
Recto, lower right, incised: RM 72
Alternative Title: Gauloises and Sienna
1972/ca. 1983
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
board
30 x 12 in. (76.2 x 30.5 cm)
Recto, lower right [painted over]:
[RM 72]
pResent owneR
Private collection
pResent owneR
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Gift of Mrs. Efrem Kurtz
pRovenance
Unknown owner; [Sotheby’s, New York,
February 27, 1990, lot 89, illus. (not
sold)]; private collection, 1990
pRovenance
Private collection, 1973; Mrs. Efrem
Kurtz, ca. 1974; Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston, 2000
solo exhIbItIons
Art Museum, Princeton University,
N.J., 1973, cat. no. 35.
Current Editions, Seattle, 1973.
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Houston, 1974.
InscRIptIons
Recto, lower right, incised and
inscribed: RM 72
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comments
This work was consigned to the
Lawrence Rubin Gallery in 1972 with
the title Gauloises and Sienna. It was
reworked in 1983, when the ground was
repainted in ochre and accents of white
and red were added near the collage
element (see also c320 and c337).
Motherwell gave the work its present
title just before he sent it to the Galería
Joan Prats exhibition in 1991.
aRtIst’s studIo numbeR
c72-247
pResent owneR
Private collection of George and Jo
Elyn Nyman, Birmingham, Mich.
pRovenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; George
and Jo Elyn Nyman, Birmingham,
Mich., 2002
solo exhIbItIons
Galería Joan Prats, Basel Art Fair,
Switzerland, 1991, cat. no. 2 (sec.
“Paintings”), color illus. n.p.
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin,
Tex., 1975.
co lla ges
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