Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 205
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Stravinsky
1973
Acrylic and pasted papers on board
48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right (on collage element):
RM Summer 73
present owner
The JPMorgan Chase Collection
provenance
Private collection, 1975; private collection, 1975; private collection; JPMorgan
Chase Collection, 1983
solo exhibitions
Montclair Art Museum, N.J., 1989,
erroneously as Stravinsky (Next to
Final State).
group exhibitions
Bruce Museum of Arts and Science,
Greenwich, Conn., 2004, cat. no. 7,
color illus. p. 15.
references
Arnason 1977b, pp. 83–84, 90, color
illus. n.p. (pl. 240); Arnason 1982,
pp. 83–84, 94, illus. p. 82 (pl. 77).
comments
The collage elements in this work
include a lithographic reproduction of
sheet music from Stravinsky’s Le sacre
du printemps (The Rite of Spring) and
a Gauloises cigarette package. Arnason
(1977b and 1982) reproduced the
final state of this work with a caption
erroneously indicating that the image
represents the next-to-final state.
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c399
Gemini
1973
Acrylic and pasted papers on
paperboard
47⅞ x 36 in. (121.6 x 91.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: R Motherwell
1 Nov 1973
comments
This collage takes its title from the
brown wrapping paper and mailing
label torn from a package sent to
Motherwell by Gemini G.E.L. in Los
Angeles. Motherwell worked on several
print editions at Gemini in March
1973. This work shares strong compositional similarities with Birthday (c372),
created earlier that year.
present owner
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C. The Joseph H.
Hirshhorn Bequest, 1981
provenance
Knoedler & Company, 1974; Joseph H.
Hirshhorn, 1974; Hirshhorn Museum
and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C., 1981
solo exhibitions
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C., 1991, cat. no. 14,
as Gemini (1 Nov 73).
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