Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 208
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Poe No. 2
Poe No. 3
Poe No. 4
1973
Acrylic and pasted paper on Upson
board
48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
1973
Acrylic and pasted papers on Upson
board
36 x 48 in. (91.4 x 121.9 cm)
1973
Acrylic and pasted paper on Upson
board
48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper left: R Motherwell
19 Nov 1973
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper right: R Motherwell
20 Nov 73
aRtIst’s studIo numbeR
c73-978
pResent owneR
Unknown
InscRIptIons
Recto, lower left [partially obscured
by framing mat]: R. Motherwell
23 Nov 7[3]
pResent owneR
Private collection, Frankfurt
pRovenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, Frankfurt, 2001
pRovenance
Private collection, 1978; unknown
owner, 1989; [Sotheby’s, New York,
February 15, 1989, lot 82, illus.];
unknown owner, 1989
solo exhIbItIons
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, 2001,
cat. no. 1, color illus. p. 21.
solo exhIbItIons
Knoedler & Company, New York, 1974,
cat. no. 8.
pResent owneR
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C. The Joseph H.
Hirshhorn Bequest, 1981
pRovenance
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1974; Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington,
D.C., 1981
solo exhIbItIons
Knoedler & Company, New York, 1974,
cat. no. 7.
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collages
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C., 1991, cat. no. 8.
comments
This collage was the model for
Motherwell’s 1973 painting Bête Noire
(p757).
