Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 199
c382
c383
c384
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, 1984, cat. no. 84.
c382
c383
c384
Two Reds
Parisian Collage
N.R.F. Collage No. 4
1973
Acrylic and pasted papers on
cardboard
27 x 18 in. (68.6 x 45.7 cm)
1973
Acrylic and pasted paper on canvas
board
28 x 18 in. (71.1 x 45.7 cm)
1973
Oil, acrylic, pasted paper, and charcoal
on Upson board
48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,
1993.
inscriptions
Recto, lower left, incised [painted over]:
[RM 73]
inscriptions
Recto, upper left, incised: RM 73
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: R. Motherwell 73
artist’s studio number
c73-1083; c73-2427
artist’s studio number
c73-1237
present owner
Private collection
present owner
Collection of the Modern Art Museum
of Fort Worth. Museum purchase, the
Friends of Art Endowment Fund
references
Arnason 1977b, p. 83, color illus. n.p.
(pl. 239); Hughes 1977, p. 51, color
illus. p. 51; Motherwell in Arnason
1977b, n.p.; Arnason 1982, pp. 11, 83,
illus. p. 82 (pl. 76).
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Private collection, 1977; private collection, 1977; private collection, 1977;
private collection, ca. 1979
comments
This collage includes a label from a roll
of V. A. Claessens Belgian artist’s
canvas.
provenance
Private collection, 1980; private
collection, 1980
comments
The title of this work refers to the red
package from Parisienne Super cigarettes, a Swiss brand, at the lower right.
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Modern Art
Museum of Fort Worth, 1993
solo exhibitions
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de
Paris, 1977, color illus. n.p.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1978,
cat. no. 22.
William Benton Museum of Art,
University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1979,
cat. no. 59 (brochure); cat. no. 62
(catalogue).
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,
1994.
comments
This is the fifth collage in which
Motherwell used a piece of mailing
wrapper from the French periodical La
Nouvelle Revue française (N.R.F.), and
the fourth in the numbered N.R.F. collage series. The first three collages in
the series were created in the spring of
1960, and were given the numbers 1 to
3 (see c104–c106); the fourth one,
created in 1963–64 (c143), was untitled
and unnumbered. The remaining piece
of the mailing wrapper that Motherwell
used in this collage had been splattered
with blue oil paint.
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