Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 214
c419
c419
Summer Sea with Debris
1973–74
Acrylic, pasted cardboard, and pasted
paper on Upson board
48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
The work was probably revised in
1974 and was photographed in its present state in September 1975 (Sloman
photo no. 249). After Motherwell
added the varied blues, he titled the
work Summer Sea with Debris.
c420
c420
New Year’s Dawn No. 2
1974
Acrylic, pasted paper, and graphite on
paper
31 x 22½ in. (78.7 x 57.2 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: R. Motherwell 25
Dec 73
inscriptions
Recto, lower right, incised and
inscribed: 1 Jan 74 RM
artist’s studio number
c73-972
Recto, lower right [painted over]:
[illegible]
present owner
Private collection
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Private collection, 1982; Mark
Borghi Fine Art, Inc., 2007; private
collection, 2007
provenance
Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Gosman, 1975;
[Christie’s, New York, November 10,
1982, lot 33, illus.]; Mr. and Mrs.
Robert S. Lubin, 1982; private collection, before 2003; [Sotheby’s, New
York, May 11, 2005, lot 167, illus.];
private collection, 2005
comments
The first state of this work was completed in December 1973, per the recto
signature. In this state, the main paper
collage element was pasted onto a field
of brushy yellow ochre paint (visible in
color slides taken of Motherwell’s studio during the late spring of 1974).
202
collages
solo exhibitions
Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit, 1975,
cat. no. 6.
references
Colby 1975, sec. F, p. 2, as New Year’s
Dawn.
comments
Motherwell gave the title New Year’s
Dawn to a (now untitled) collage done
at the beginning of 1973 (see c369),
which explains the number 2 given to
this collage. The pasted element in this
work is a label from a bottle of Pol
Latour & Cie champagne.
