Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 232
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In White and Blue on Grey
Collage (17 May 74)
1974
Acrylic and pasted papers on Upson
board
48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
Alternative Title: Untitled
1974
Acrylic, pasted papers, and china
marker on Upson board
72 x 36 in. (182.9 x 91.4 cm)
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 16 May 74
pResent owneR
Willem Peppler, Switzerland
pRovenance
Knoedler & Company, 1974; private
collection; Willem Peppler, Switzerland,
1983
RefeRences
Arnason 1976, color illus. p. 17 (in studio); Arnason 1977b, color illus. n.p.
(pl. 253, in studio).
220
collages
InscRIptIons
Recto, upper right: R. Motherwell
17 May 74
pResent owneR
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C. Gift of Joseph H.
Hirshhorn, 1977
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. 1,
erroneously as Collage (19 May 74).
GRoup exhIbItIons
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C., 1977.
RefeRences
Arnason 1976, color illus. p. 17 (in studio); Arnason 1977b, p. 86, color illus.
n.p. (pls. 253, in studio, 255), referred
to in text and in illus. as Untitled;
Arnason 1982, p. 87, illus. p. 86 (pl. 88).
comments
The brown paper at the lower center of
this collage is a mailing wrapper from
the French periodical Chroniques de l’art
vivant.
