Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 190
c357
c358
c359
c360
c357
c358
c359
c360
German Line No. 3
German Line No. 4
German Line No. 5
German Line No. 6
1972
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
board
30 x 15 in. (76.2 x 38.1 cm)
1972/ca. 1983
Acrylic, pasted papers, and graphite on
canvas board
30 x 15⅛ in. (76.2 x 38.4 cm)
1972
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
board
29½ x 11¾ in. (74.9 x 29.8 cm)
1972
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
board
30 x 15 in. (76.2 x 38.1 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 23 July 72
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: RM 23 July 72
inscriptions
Recto, lower right, incised: RM 72
inscriptions
Recto, lower right, incised: RM 72
present owner
Private collection
artist’s studio number
c72-946
present owner
Unknown
artist’s studio number
c72-671
provenance
Private collection, 1972; Mr. and
Mrs. Martin Stein, 1972; Leslie Stein
Selcow, 1988; private collection, 2004;
[Sotheby’s, New York, November 12,
2009, lot 188, illus.]; private collection,
2009
present owner
Private collection, California
provenance
Unknown owner, ca. 1973; [Sotheby’s,
New York, May 3, 1988, lot 166A,
illus.]; unknown owner, 1988
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
solo exhibitions
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles,
November 2002, cat. no. 7.
comments
This work was given the same title
as c356.
178
collages
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, California, 2005
solo exhibitions
Current Editions, Seattle, 1973 (shown
in early state).
comments
The gray brushstrokes around the
central collage elements in this work
were added around 1983, when the
colors of the lower horizontal bands
were also modified. Around the same
time, Motherwell painted over vertical
lines that had been incised in the
orange ground.
solo exhibitions
Current Editions, Seattle, 1973.
comments
Our reproduction of this work comes
from the 1988 Sotheby’s auction
catalogue.
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
