Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 188
c351
c351
c352
Untitled
German Line No. 1
1972
Acrylic and pasted papers on board
14½ x 11½ in. (36.8 x 29.2 cm)
1972
Acrylic, pasted papers, and graphite on
canvas board
30 x 12 in. (76.2 x 30.5 cm)
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 72
Verso: For Heidi + Claus ColsmanFreyberger Merry Xmas 1972
from their friend Robert Motherwell
pResent owneR
Private collection, Germany
InscRIptIons
Recto, lower left, incised: RM
23 July 72
aRtIst’s studIo numbeR
c72-250
pRovenance
Private collection, Germany, 1972
pResent owneR
Collection of Skip Paul and Van
Fletcher, Beverly Hills, Calif.
comments
The dedication on the verso is to Heidi
and Claus Colsman-Freyberger, who
worked for Motherwell at the time.
pRovenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Skip Paul
and Van Fletcher, Beverly Hills, Calif.,
2006
solo exhIbItIons
Art Museum, Princeton University,
N.J., 1973, cat. no. 23.
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles,
2005, cat. no. 2, color illus. p. 5.
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collages
c352
comments
The collage element in this work, from
which the title derives, is a torn package
from a German brand of cigarettes,
Ernte 23. The title German Line recalls
the compositional similarities between
this work and an earlier collage, The
French Line (c124).
There are irregularities in the
numbering of the German Line series
(c352–c363): the numbers 1, 2, and 3
were each given to two works (this work
was given the same title as c353).
The German Line collages became
the model for a series of collaged
lithographs, the 1973 Summer Light
series (Engberg and Banach 2003,
nos. 142–47).
c353
c353
German Line No. 1
1972
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
board
30¼ x 15 in. (76.8 x 38.1 cm)
InscRIptIons
Recto not signed, not dated
pResent owneR
Collection of Mr. Jorge Eljuri
pRovenance
Mr. and Mrs. George Berman;
[Christie’s, New York, November 20,
1998, lot 796, illus.]; Jorge Eljuri, 1998
comments
This work was given the same title
as c352.
