Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 194
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Untitled
In Scarlet and Cognac
1973
Acrylic and pasted papers on paper
30¾ x 22½ in. (78.1 x 57.2 cm)
1973
Acrylic and pasted paper on cardboard
23⅞ x 20½ in. (60.6 x 52.1 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: For Heidi + Claus
25 Dec 1973 R Motherwell
inscriptions
Recto, upper left, incised: R Motherwell
11 Jan 73
present owner
Private collection, Germany
Verso (on backing board, reattached):
“in scarlet and cognac” 11 Jan 73
Robert Motherwell
provenance
Private collection, Germany, 1973
comments
The date in the dedication on the recto
of this collage (“25 December 1973”) is
not the date that the work was created
but the date that it was inscribed to
Heidi and Claus Colsman-Freyberger,
who worked for Motherwell at the time.
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Birthday
1973
Acrylic, pasted papers, and graphite on
Upson board
48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: R Motherwell
24 Jan 73
artist’s studio number
c73-641
present owner
Unknown
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Knoedler & Company, 1974; private
collection, 1974; unknown owner
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
solo exhibitions
Waddington Galleries, London, 1975.
Galerie Lelong, Paris, 2005.
references
Arnason 1982, color illus. p. 194
(pl. 267).
collages
comments
The title of this work refers to the wrapping paper from Rémy Martin cognac
that dominates the composition.
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artist’s studio number
c73-1231
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de
Paris, 1977.
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group exhibitions
Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1974
(traveling), illus. p. 102.
comments
The title of this work refers to the date
inscribed at the upper left, the day of
Motherwell’s fifty-eighth birthday.
Our reproduction comes from an
early color slide of this work.
