Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 198
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[ Untitled (Champagne)]
Tobacco Harvest
Berggruen Fils Collage
1973
Acrylic and pasted paper on canvas
board
28 x 18 in. (71.1 x 45.7 cm)
1973
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
board
24 x 18 in. (61 x 45.7 cm)
1973
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
board
30 x 18 in. (76.2 x 45.7 cm)
InscRIptIons
Recto, lower right, incised: RM 73
InscRIptIons
Recto, lower right, incised: RM 73
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper left, incised: RM 73
aRtIst’s studIo numbeR
c73-1020
aRtIst’s studIo numbeR
c73-1085; c73-2526
aRtIst’s studIo numbeR
c73-1015
pResent owneR
Dedalus Foundation
pResent owneR
Dedalus Foundation
pResent owneR
Private collection
pRovenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
pRovenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
pRovenance
Private collection, 1979
comments
The collage element in this work is a
label from a bottle of Dom Pérignon
champagne.
GRoup exhIbItIons
Galerie Klüser 2, Munich, 2007.
comments
The title of this work refers to the piece
of an envelope with a mailing label
from the John Berggruen Gallery in
San Francisco addressed to Motherwell.
The other collage elements are a label
from a bottle of Mumm’s champagne
and a piece of paper that is mostly
painted over. Motherwell made the
Berggruen Collage (c179) in 1967, using
a mailing wrapper for catalogues from
186
collages
comments
The brightly colored pasted paper at
the lower center of this work is a package from Ernte 23 cigarettes, a German
brand. Ernte in German means “harvest,” hence the title of this work. See
also Harvest 23 with Ultramarine (c364).
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his 1961 exhibition at Heinz Berggruen’s
gallery in Paris. In 1973 he began working with the John Berggruen Gallery in
San Francisco, which was run by Heinz
Berggruen’s son—a circumstance to
which the title of this collage alludes.
