Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 228
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Cabaret No. 6
Cabaret No. 7
1974
Acrylic, pasted papers, and graphite on
paper
22 x 10¼ in. (55.9 x 26 cm)
1974
Acrylic, pasted papers, and graphite on
paper
22¼ x 10⅜ in. (56.5 x 26.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 74
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 74
present owner
Unknown
artist’s studio number
c74-507
provenance
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco,
1974; private collection, 1975; private
collection, 1976; unknown owner
present owner
Sidney and Madeline Forbes
solo exhibitions
Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, 1974,
cat. no. 57, illus. n.p.
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin,
Tex., 1975.
comments
The main collage element in this work
is a tag from Levi’s jeans. Our reproduction comes from an early black-andwhite photograph of the work.
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collages
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Sidney and
Madeline Forbes, 2004
solo exhibitions
Waddington Galleries, London, 1975.
comments
The collage element at the center of
this work is a ticket from a bullfight
at the Plaza de Toros de BayonneBiarritz, France, dated August 3, 1958,
a souvenir from Motherwell’s honeymoon trip with Helen Frankenthaler.
It was this bullfight that inspired his
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Iberia and Bull paintings in 1958 (see
the Comments for Iberia No. 2, p177).
Motherwell used another bullfight
ticket in Cabaret No. 12 (c453).
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Cabaret No. 8
1974
Acrylic, pasted papers, and graphite
on paper
22 x 10¼ in. (55.9 x 26 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 74
artist’s studio number
c74-2675
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Jonathan
Novak Contemporary Art, 2005;
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London,
2007; private collection, 2007
