Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 213
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Untitled
Latour Collage
Duet
1973
Pasted papers and lithograph on paper
38 x 26 in. (96.5 x 66 cm)
1973
Acrylic and pasted papers on paper
41½ x 27½ in. (105.4 x 69.9 cm)
InscRIptIons
Recto, lower right (on collage element):
RM 73
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper left: R. Motherwell 1973
1973
Acrylic, pasted papers, and graphite on
paper
22 x 11 in. (55.9 x 27.9 cm)
aRtIst’s studIo numbeR
c73-911
pResent owneR
Dedalus Foundation
pRovenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
comments
In 1977 this collage was used as the
maquette for an unpublished lithograph, only a single proof of which is
known to have survived (Dedalus
Foundation Archives); that proof does
not appear in Engberg and Banach
2003. The composition of this collage
recalls a 1943 work, Collage in Black and
Green (c9), which is said to have been
“accidentally destroyed” (Arnason
1982, p. 30). Motherwell returned to
this motif in 1976 (see c568 and c575).
aRtIst’s studIo numbeR
c73-710
pResent owneR
Dedalus Foundation
pRovenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
solo exhIbItIons
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco,
1975.
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, 1976.
comments
The central collage element in this
work is a lithographic reproduction of a
label from a bottle of Chateau Latour
wine. It is similar to those used in several other collages (see c389 and c397)
and in the group of Paulliac prints from
the 1973 Summer Light series (Engberg
and Banach 2003, nos. 148–51).
c418
black-and-white photograph taken of
this work around 1973 (studio inventory photo no. ph 39-12). We do not
know whether this work still exists in
the form reproduced here.
InscRIptIons
Recto, lower right: RM 73
aRtIst’s studIo numbeR
c73-1963
pResent owneR
Unknown
pRovenance
The artist
solo exhIbItIons
Tirca Karlis Gallery, Provincetown,
Mass., 1973.
comments
The title of this work refers to the top
from a package of Schimmelpenninck
Duet cigars that is used as a collage
element. This work anticipates the
Cabaret series of 1974 (see c442–c453).
Our reproduction comes from a
co lla ges
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