Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 230
c453
c453
Cabaret No. 12
1974
Acrylic, pasted papers, and graphite on
paper
22 x 10¼ in. (55.9 x 26 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 74
present owner
Unknown
provenance
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco,
1974; private collection, 1976; unknown
owner
solo exhibitions
Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, 1974,
cat. no. 58, illus. n.p.
comments
The collage element at the lower 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
Iberia and Bull series of paintings in
218
collages
1958 (see the Comments for Iberia
No. 2, p177). Motherwell used another
of these tickets in the collage Cabaret
No. 7 (c448).
Our reproduction of the work
comes from the 1974 Otis Art Institute
exhibition catalogue.
c454
c454
Suchard
1974
Acrylic, pasted papers, ink, and china
marker on paper
31 x 16 in. (78.7 x 40.6 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: Motherwell 21
March 74
present owner
Unknown
provenance
Private collection, 1974; Brett Mitchell
Collection, Cleveland; Dorothy D. and
Samuel S. Kates; [Wolf’s, Cleveland,
May 20, 1995, lot 322, illus.]; unknown
owner, 1995
solo exhibitions
Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, 1974,
cat. no. 49, illus. n.p.
group exhibitions
Cleveland Museum of Art, 1986, illus.
n.p. (fig. 28).
comments
The word Suchard inscribed by
Motherwell on the horizontal piece of
white paper below the left center of this
collage element refers to the Suchard
Bittra brand chocolate wrappers that he
incorporated into many of his collages
in 1973, particularly the Suchard on
Orange series (c274–c276 and
c406–c409).
