Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 218
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Beckett’s Space No. 2
1974
Acrylic and pasted paper on Upson
board
72 x 36 in. (182.9 x 91.4 cm)
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper right: Motherwell
20 April 74
aRtIst’s studIo numbeR
c74-1559
pResent owneR
Dedalus Foundation
pRovenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
solo exhIbItIons
Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1976
(traveling), cat. no. 47, illus. p. 110.
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de
Paris, 1977, as Beckett Space No. 2.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh,
1977.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1978,
cat. no. 29, illus. p. 19.
206
collages
Centro Cultural de la Caixa de
Pensions, Barcelona, 1980 (traveling),
cat. no. 10; Madrid, cat. no. 10, color
illus. n.p.
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles,
2000, cat. no. 32.
Galerie Lelong, Paris, 2005.
RefeRences
Lucie-Smith 1978b, p. 23; Bonet 1980,
illus. p. 16; Rubio 1980, color illus.
p. 21.
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The Adriatic
Rites of Spring
1974
Acrylic, pasted papers, and charcoal on
Upson board
72 x 36 in. (182.9 x 91.4 cm)
1974
Acrylic, pasted papers, and charcoal on
Upson board
72 x 36 in. (182.9 x 91.4 cm)
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper right, incised:
R Motherwell 10 Feb 74
InscRIptIons
Recto, lower right: 13 Feb 74
R Motherwell
pResent owneR
Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection.
Promised gift of the Virginia and Bagley
Wright Collection, in honor of the 75th
anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum
Verso not seen [“untitled and dated
Feb 13 74 on the back,” per present
owner]
pRovenance
Virginia and Bagley Wright, 1974
pRovenance
Paul Haim, 1974; private collection,
France
solo exhIbItIons
Galerie André Emmerich, Zurich, 1974.
comments
The collage element at the center of
this work is a customs label from the
city of Rijeka in Croatia (then part of
Yugoslavia). A number of Motherwell’s
works had been shown in Rijeka in
January 1962 as part of a U.S.
Information Agency traveling exhibition, Vanguard American Painting.
pResent owneR
Private collection, France
solo exhIbItIons
Knoedler & Company, New York, 1974,
cat. no. 5.
comments
The title of this work, done on the eve
of Saint Valentine’s Day, refers to Igor
Stravinsky’s Le sacre du printemps (The
Rite of Spring) of 1913.
