Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 226
c442
c441
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, 1984, cat. no. 140, as
Unglueckliche Liebe.
references
Art International 1974, cover color
illus.; Arnason 1976, color illus. p. 17
(in studio); Arnason 1977b, p. 86, as
Unglueckliche Liebe, color illus. n.p.
(pls. 253, in studio, 265); Motherwell in
Arnason 1977b, n.p.; Arnason 1982,
p. 87, illus. p. 84 (pl. 85); Ashton 1983,
p. 43, color illus. p. 45, referred to in
text and in illus. as Unglueckliche Liebe;
Brenson 1983b, sec. 2, p. 35; Hughes
1983, p. 70, color illus. p. 68; Inje 1984,
p. 13; Richard 1984, sec. D, p. 12, as
Unglueckliche Liebe; Wilson 1984, sec.
Calendar, p. 75, illus. sec. Calendar,
p. 75, referred to in text and in illus. as
Unglueckliche Liebe; Gaugh 1985, color
illus. p. 73; National Museum of
Contemporary Art exh. cat. 1988, color
214
collages
illus. p. 645 (fig. 4, as Unglueckliche
Liebe); Polcari 1991, p. 308.
c442
comments
The title of this collage refers to
the fragment of sheet music near the
center, which is from Mozart’s song
“Unglückliche Liebe” (Unfortunate
Love; k. 520).
Alternative Title: Cabaret No. 1
1974/1990
Acrylic, pasted papers, and graphite on
paper
22 x 10⅜ in. (55.9 x 26.4 cm)
Cabaret Collage
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 74
artist’s studio number
c74-3326
present owner
Private collection, New York
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, New York, 2005
solo exhibitions
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City,
1991 (traveling), cat. no. 45, color illus.
p. 58.
comments
The basic composition of this collage
was set in 1974, when it was titled
Cabaret No. 1. That early version of the
work was used as a maquette for a tapestry (edition of 8) produced around
1978 by Modern Master Tapestries,
Inc. Motherwell revised the collage in
1990, adding the ochre and white paint
around the central collage elements,
and retitled it Cabaret Collage. The
sheet music at the center of this collage
is from Mozart’s Das Bandel: “Liebes
Mandel, wo ist’s Bandel?” (k. 441); it is
also used in the Baltic Sea Bride series
(see c431 and c433) and in a number of
other collages.
