Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 222
c435
c435
The Baltic Sea Bride No. 5
1974
Acrylic and pasted papers on Upson
board
48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
comments
The collage element in this work is an
envelope from the French periodical
Chroniques de l’art vivant.
c436
c436
The Baltic Sea Marriage
1974
Acrylic and pasted papers on Upson
board
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper left: R Motherwell
March 74
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper right: Motherwell
16 March 74
pResent owneR
Unknown
aRtIst’s studIo numbeR
c74-1235
pRovenance
Private collection, 1974; private collection, 1978; [Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc.,
London, December 2, 1982, lot 367,
illus.]; private collection, 1982; Klabal
Gallery, Inc., 1989; unknown owner
pResent owneR
Renate Ponsold Motherwell
solo exhIbItIons
Galerie André Emmerich, Zurich, 1974.
GRoup exhIbItIons
Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, 1983,
color illus. n.p.
pRovenance
Renate Ponsold Motherwell, 1992
solo exhIbItIons
Waddington Galleries, London, 1975.
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de
Paris, 1977.
RefeRences
Maloon 1978, illus. p. 21.
comments
The sheet music in this collage is from
Mozart’s Das Bandel: “Liebes Mandel,
wo ist’s Bandel?” (k. 441); see the
210
collages
Comments for The Baltic Sea Bride
No. 1 (c431).
Our reproduction comes from an
early color photograph of this work.
