Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 221
c433
The Baltic Sea Bride No. 3
1974
Acrylic and pasted papers on Upson
board
48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper right: Motherwell 23
March 74
aRtIst’s studIo numbeR
c74-980
pResent owneR
National Gallery of Art, Washington,
D.C. Gift of Lawrence Rubin,
1993.66.2
pRovenance
Lawrence Rubin, 1988; National
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1993
solo exhIbItIons
Montclair Art Museum, N.J.,
November 1989.
GRoup exhIbItIons
Knoedler & Company, New York, June
1993, cat. no. 8.
c434
National Gallery of Art, Washington,
D.C., 1995.
c434
RefeRences
Arnason 1976, p. 25; Arnason 1977b,
p. 84, color illus. n.p. (pl. 242); Arnason
1982, p. 84, color illus. p. 85 (pl. 86,
in studio).
1974
Acrylic and pasted paper on Upson
board
48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
comments
The sheet music in this collage is from
Mozart’s Das Bandel: “Liebes Mandel,
wo ist’s Bandel?” (k. 441), the same
musical source as for c431 and c436.
A Suchard Bittra wrapper is placed
under the music.
The Baltic Sea Bride No. 4
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper right: R Motherwell
March 74
pResent owneR
Private collection
pRovenance
Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York,
1975; [Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc.,
New York, November 5, 1987, lot 122H,
illus.]; unknown owner, 1987; [Sotheby’s,
New York, November 7, 1990, lot 187,
illus.]; private collection, 1990
GRoup exhIbItIons
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, 1976 (traveling), cat. no. 147,
illus. p. 89.
Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York,
1977, cat. no. 125, color illus. n.p.
Davenport Art Gallery, Iowa, 1983
(traveling), cat. no. 59, color illus. p. 68.
RefeRences
Hess 1974, illus. p. 68, as Baltic Sea
Bride; Tallmer 1977, illus. p. 16.
comments
The collage element in this work is an
envelope from the French periodical
Chroniques de l’art vivant.
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