Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 202
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c391
[ Untitled (Ernte on Orange)]
Guardian No. 4
1973
Pasted papers and lithograph on paper
37⅞ x 19⅞ in. (96.2 x 50.5 cm)
1966/1973
Acrylic, pasted papers, and ink on
Upson board
22 x 14 in. (55.9 x 35.6 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 73
artist’s studio number
c73-677
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: R. Motherwell
1966–73
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
present owner
Private collection, Cologne, Germany
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
provenance
Private collection, Cologne, Germany,
1977
comments
This work is one of five collages
Motherwell created in March 1973
at Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, as
maquettes for planned (but unrealized)
editions of lithographs (see the
Comments for c386).
The Ernte 23 cigarette label in this
collage is a lithographic facsimile.
190
collages
solo exhibitions
Galerie André Emmerich, Zurich, 1974.
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen,
Germany, 2004, color illus. p. 70.
references
Müller 2004, illus. sec. A, p. 8 (detail,
as The Guardian).
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comments
Motherwell began the Guardian
series in 1966 (see the Comments for
Guardian No. 1, c170), but many of the
Guardian collages were later reworked.
This collage was revised in 1973, when
Motherwell added the ochre paint and
the Ernte 23 cigarette package, and
added the later date to the inscription.
c392
c392
July
1973
Acrylic and pasted papers on board
20 x 14¾ in. (50.8 x 37.5 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: R. Motherwell
14 July 73
present owner
Unknown
provenance
Private collection, 1974; unknown
owner
comments
The title of this work refers to the date
inscribed on the recto.
Our reproduction comes from a
black-and-white photograph taken
around 1973 (studio inventory photo
no. ph 39-11).
