Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 196
c375
c375
[ Untitled (Gauloises, Red)]
1973
Acrylic, pasted papers, and graphite on
canvas board
24 x 18 in. (61 x 45.7 cm)
its upper left. After it was reoriented
180 degrees, Motherwell re-signed the
work at the lower left. The original
inscription is still partially visible at the
lower right side of the work, where it
can be read upside down.
c376
c376
Green Gauloises
1973
Acrylic, pasted papers, and graphite
on cardboard
16½ x 14 in. (41.9 x 35.6 cm)
InscRIptIons
Recto, lower left, incised: Motherwell
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper left: R. Motherwell 73
Recto, lower right (upside down)
[painted over]: [R. Motherwell 73]
pResent owneR
Private collection, Connecticut
aRtIst’s studIo numbeR
c73-1018
pRovenance
John McKendry, 1973; unknown
owner; Edys Hunter, ca. 1982;
Greenberg Gallery, Saint Louis, 1987;
private collection, New York, 1988;
private collection, Connecticut
pResent owneR
Private collection
pRovenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2003
solo exhIbItIons
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London,
2003.
comments
This work was originally executed
upside down from its current orientation, and was then signed at what was
184
collages
comments
This is the only collage in which
Motherwell used a green package from
Gauloises Caporal Doux cigarettes.
Motherwell originally inscribed this
work as a gift to John McKendry
(1933–1975), the curator of prints and
photography at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, who organized
Motherwell’s 1972 A la pintura exhibition at the museum. In the fall of 1985,
Motherwell painted over the dedication
at the request of his friend Edys Hunter,
who then owned the work.
