Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 203
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c393
Côte d’Azur
1973
Acrylic and pasted papers on paper
22 x 11¼ in. (55.9 x 28.6 cm)
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper left: R. Motherwell 24
July 73
aRtIst’s studIo numbeR
c73-1955
Line (c124) and his later German Line
series (c352–c363). The most prominent collage element is a blue Gauloises
Caporal package.
On the verso of The French Line,
Motherwell had described four things
to which the title of that work referred;
the last of these was “Côte d’Azure [sic]
(coast-line),” from which this work
takes its title.
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c394
c395
La Belle Epoque
Basque Collage
1973
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
board
23⅞ x 11⅞ in. (60.6 x 30.2 cm)
Alternative Title: St.-Jean-de-Luz
1973
Acrylic and pasted paper on Upson
board
23¾ x 12 in. (60.3 x 30.5 cm)
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper right: Motherwell 73
pResent owneR
Private collection
pResent owneR
Private collection, Cologne
pRovenance
Private collection, ca. 1973
pRovenance
Private collection, Cologne, ca. 1978
comments
The title of this collage refers to the
black label from a bottle of La Belle
Epoque champagne at the upper center. Below it is a fragment of a 1973
etching and aquatint, Untitled (Engberg
and Banach 2003, no. 138).
solo exhIbItIons
Tirca Karlis Gallery, Provincetown,
Mass., 1973.
GRoup exhIbItIons
Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle Köln,
Cologne, Germany, 2000, cat. no. 64.
RefeRences
Drudi 1983, color illus. n.p.
comments
The composition of this work recalls
Motherwell’s 1960 collage The French
c395
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 73
Recto, lower left, incised [painted over]:
[RM]
aRtIst’s studIo numbeR
c73-1014
pResent owneR
Private collection, Mallorca
pRovenance
Private collection, 1989; private collection, Mallorca, Spain, 2003
solo exhIbItIons
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, 1978, as
St.-Jean-de-Luz.
Galería Joan Prats, Basel Art Fair,
Switzerland, 1991, cat. no. 1 (sec.
“Paintings”), color illus. n.p.
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