Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 217
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Ambiguity of Space
Royal Fireworks Music
Beckett’s Space
1974
Acrylic, pasted canvas, and pasted
papers on Upson board
72 x 36 in. (182.9 x 91.4 cm)
1974
Acrylic, pasted canvas, pasted papers,
and china marker on Upson board
72 x 36 in. (182.9 x 91.4 cm)
1974
Acrylic and pasted paper on Upson
board
72 x 36 in. (182.9 x 91.4 cm)
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper right: R. Motherwell
2 Feb 74
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper left: RM 9 Feb 74
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper right: R Motherwell
9 Feb 74
pResent owneR
Schorr Family Collection on loan to
Princeton University Art Museum
pRovenance
Schorr Family Collection, 1974
solo exhIbItIons
Knoedler & Company, New York, 1974,
cat. no. 4.
RefeRences
Kramer 1974a, p. 21; Arnason 1977b,
illus. n.p. (pl. 251); Arnason 1982, illus.
p. 189 (pl. 262).
comments
The collage element in the lower center
of this work is a piece of brown wrapping paper with a label from V. A.
Claessens Belgian artist’s canvas.
pResent owneR
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. James R.
Patton Jr.
pRovenance
Paul Haim, 1974; Margo Leavin
Gallery, Los Angeles, 1974; private
collection; Mr. and Mrs. James R.
Patton Jr., 1980
GRoup exhIbItIons
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles,
1978.
Ackland Art Museum, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001,
cat. no. 13, color illus. p. 55.
comments
The title of this collage refers to George
Frideric Handel’s Music for the Royal
Fireworks of 1749 (hwv 351).
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comments
This collage, whose title refers to the
writer Samuel Beckett (1906–1989),
evokes the sparseness of Beckett’s prose
and dramatic works.
pResent owneR
Private collection
pRovenance
Knoedler & Company, 1974; unknown
owner, 1974; private collection
solo exhIbItIons
Knoedler & Company, New York, 1974,
cat. no. 3.
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City,
1975, cat. no. 37.
RefeRences
Arnason 1977b, illus. n.p. (pl. 251),
color illus. n.p. (pl. 252); Arnason 1982,
illus. p. 189 (pl. 262, as Samuel Beckett’s
Space).
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