Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 206
c400
c400
Greenwich Harbor
1973–74
Acrylic and pasted papers on Upson
board
48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: R Motherwell 10
Nov 73
Recto, upper left [painted over]:
[R. Motherwell 10 Nov 73]
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Private collection, 1974
solo exhibitions
Galerie André Emmerich, Zurich, 1974.
comments
In the 1973 version of this work the
bright blues and reds in the lower part
had not yet been added (studio inventory photo no. ph 39-5). When
Motherwell reworked this collage in
1974, he left standing his earlier date.
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collages
The pasted paper near the center
of this work is a brown wrapper from
a package of Arches watercolor paper.
The title refers to the resemblance of
the painted forms to the topography of
the harbor of Greenwich, Connecticut,
on the Long Island Sound.
c401
c401
Sand and Sea
group exhibitions
Acquavella Contemporary Art, New
York, 1974, as Stamps.
Alternative Title: Stamps
1973/ca. 1977
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
board
36 x 48 in. (91.4 x 121.9 cm)
Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis,
Mass., 1991, erroneously as Sea and
Sand.
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: R. Motherwell
12 Nov 73
Recto, upper left [painted over]:
[R. Motherwell 13 Nov 73]
artist’s studio number
c73-1230; c73-3642
present owner
Denver Art Museum Collection. For a
full list of donors, see the entry for p22.
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Denver Art
Museum, 1994
solo exhibitions
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de
Paris, 1977, as Stamps.
Denver Art Museum, 1995, illus. n.p.
references
Arnason 1977b, color illus. n.p.
(pl. 244, as Stamps); Caws 1996b, illus.
p. 135; Paglia 1996, p. 56; Tieken 2000,
illus. n.p.; Caws 2003, illus. p. 29
(ill. 22).
comments
This work was begun in 1973, when
an early state with an ochre ground
was photographed (Clements photo
no. 78-625). It may have been already
finished when first shown at the
Acquavella gallery in December 1974
under its early title, Stamps. In any case,
the blue paint had been added by the
time it was photographed again on
April 11, 1977 (Sloman photo no. 635).
Motherwell later (by 1991) changed the
title to Sand and Sea.
