Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 231
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Untitled
Untitled
1974
Acrylic and pasted papers on paper
35½ x 19 in. (90.2 x 48.3 cm), irreg.
1974
Acrylic, pasted papers, graphite, and
china marker on Upson board
72 x 36 in. (182.9 x 91.4 cm)
prints at this time, and an envelope
addressed to Motherwell from the
Museo de Arte Moderno, Chapultepec
Park, Mexico City. Motherwell had a
retrospective exhibition there in 1975.
inscriptions
Recto, upper right, incised: RM 74
present owner
Collection of Cynthia and David
Comsky
provenance
Cynthia and David Comsky, 1974
comments
The pasted piece of newspaper in this
collage is from the Times (London),
September 29, 1965, which featured an
article on Motherwell’s retrospective at
the Museum of Modern Art, New York,
published on the day the exhibition
opened. Motherwell used another piece
from this newspaper in Cabaret No. 5
(c446).
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c457
Untitled
1974
Acrylic and pasted papers on Upson
board
72 x 36 in. (182.9 x 91.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left, incised [painted over]:
[RM]
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: R Motherwell
14 May 74
Recto, lower right: R Motherwell
12 May 74
present owner
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C. The Joseph H.
Hirshhorn Bequest, 1981
present owner
Private collection, Cologne
provenance
Private collection, 1976; Galerie
Schmela, Düsseldorf; [Christie’s,
London, October 24, 1996, lot 89,
illus.]; private collection, Cologne,
Germany, 1996
solo exhibitions
Galerie André Emmerich, Zurich, 1974.
comments
The collage elements in this work
include wrapping paper from Dain/
Schiff, the publishers of Motherwell’s
provenance
Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1974; Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington,
D.C., 1981
solo exhibitions
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C., 1991, cat. no. 15.
references
Arnason 1976, color illus. p. 17 (in studio); Arnason 1977b, color illus. n.p.
(pl. 253, in studio).
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