Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 233
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Pierre Berès
1974
Acrylic, pasted papers, and china
marker on Upson board
72 x 36 in. (182.9 x 91.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: R Motherwell
18 May 74
present owner
Sprengel Museum, Hannover
provenance
Bernhard Sprengel, 1977; Sprengel
Museum, Hannover, Germany, 1979
solo exhibitions
Galerie André Emmerich, Zurich, 1974,
color illus. n.p.
group exhibitions
Galerie Brusberg, Hannover, Germany,
1977.
Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt,
Germany, 2000, cat. no. 6, color illus.
p. 17.
Sprengel Museum, Hannover,
Germany, 2000 (traveling), cat. no. 300,
color illus. p. 68.
references
Pleynet 1975, p. 9; Arnason 1977b,
p. 86, color illus. n.p. (pl. 256); Catoir
1980, illus. p. 282 (fig. 1); Arnason
1982, p. 87, illus. p. 86 (pl. 89); Moeller
et al. 1985, color illus. p. 421 (pl. 405);
Pleynet 1991, p. 19; Pleynet 1998, p. 93.
comments
This collage contains wrapping paper
with a mailing label from Pierre Berès,
a publisher in Paris, addressed to
Arthur A. Cohen, Motherwell’s friend
and coeditor of the Documents of
20th-Century Art series from 1967
to 1980.
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Collage with German Music
and Canvas
1974
Acrylic, pasted canvas, pasted papers,
and china marker on Upson board
72 x 36 in. (182.9 x 91.4 cm)
c461
comments
The “German Music” referred to in the
title of this collage is the sheet music
for Mozart’s “Die ihr des unermeßlichen Weltalls Schöpfer ehrt” (You Who
Honor the Creator of the Measureless
Universe), from Eine kleine deutsche
Kantate (k. 619).
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 20 May 74
present owner
Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Y. Haller
provenance
Private collection, 1975; [Sotheby’s,
New York, November 9, 1989, lot 181,
illus.]; Dr. and Mrs. Y. Haller, 1989;
[Sotheby’s, New York, November 18,
1998, lot 233, illus. (not sold)]
references
Arnason 1976, color illus. p. 17 (in studio, in progress); Arnason 1977b, p. 86,
color illus. n.p. (pls. 253, in studio, in
progress, 254); Arnason 1982, p. 87,
illus. p. 86 (pl. 87); Collins 1984, p. 96,
illus. p. 96 (fig. 4); Gilbert 1998, p. 5;
Haxall 2009, p. 128.
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