Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 195
c373
c373
Bullseye
1973
Acrylic, pasted canvas, pasted paper,
and crayon on paper mounted on board
32 x 26⅛ in. (81.3 x 66.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left, incised and inscribed:
R. Motherwell 29 Jan 73
Recto, upper left, incised [painted over]:
[R. Motherwell 28 Jan 73]
artist’s studio number
c73-641
present owner
Pinakothek der Moderne. Bayerische
Staatsgemäldesammlungen, inv. nr.
14756
provenance
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich,
1982
solo exhibitions
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen,
Germany, 2004, cover color illus., color
illus. p. 65.
references
Maier and Steingräber 1983, color illus.
p. 388 (fig. 2); Stabenow 1983, p. 82,
illus. p. 82; Drudi 1984, illus. p. 105 (in
studio), illus. p. 107 (in studio); Drudi
1988b, illus. p. 111 (in studio), illus.
p. 113 (in studio); Thierolf 2002, pp. 28,
284–89, color illus. p. 285 (cat. no. 24),
illus. p. 286 (fig. 1); Belser Kunst
Quartal 2004, cover color illus.; Kultur
Szene 2004, illus.; Kultur Szene 2004–
5, illus.
c374
c374
Tibor de Nagy Collage
1973
Oil, pasted papers, wax, and string on
board
36 x 47 in. (91.4 x 119.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: R. Motherwell
3 Feb 73
Verso not seen [“signed, titled, and
dated ‘TIBOR DE NAGY COLLAGE’ (3 Feb
73) R. Motherwell 1973 on the cardboard
backing,” per Christie’s 1991]
present owner
Unknown
provenance
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Houston, 1973;
Meredith Long & Company, 1977;
[Sotheby’s, New York, February 15,
1989, lot 103, illus.]; unknown owner,
1989; [Christie’s, New York, November
13, 1991, lot 158, illus. (not sold)]
group exhibitions
Waco Creative Art Center, Tex., 1975.
references
Holmes 1974, sec. 3, p. 18.
comments
The collage element in this work is
part of the wrapper from a package
sent to Motherwell, via the Tibor de
Nagy Gallery, by H. Danielsen Eftf.
Antikvitetshandel, an antique shop in
Copenhagen. Tibor de Nagy (1908–
1993) was a Hungarian-born American
art dealer who had galleries in New
York and Houston. Motherwell had a
solo show at the Houston gallery in
1974, where this collage was first
shown.
solo exhibitions
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Houston, 1974.
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin,
Tex., 1975.
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