Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 236
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Summertime with Blue
Celtic Air
The Times in Mexico
1974
Acrylic and pasted papers on board
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
1974
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
board
30 x 24¾ in. (76.2 x 62.9 cm)
Alternative Title: {In Pink and Grey
with Oval }
1974/1979
Acrylic and pasted papers on Upson
board
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left: Motherwell
28 July 74
present owner
Gertrude Kasle
provenAnce
Gertrude Kasle, 1974; [Christie’s,
New York, November 19, 1992, lot 285,
illus. (not sold)]
solo exhIbItIons
Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit, 1975,
cat. no. 16.
Group exhIbItIons
Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland
University, Rochester, Mich., 1976,
cat. no. 33.
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collages
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left, incised: Motherwell
74
present owner
Collection Bernard Jacobson Gallery,
London
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left: Motherwell 79
Recto, upper left (upside down)
[painted over]: [Motherwell Aug 74]
provenAnce
Private collection, 1975; Robin and
George Dalsheimer, 1988; Bernard
Jacobson Gallery, London, 2007
ArtIst’s studIo number
c74-1936; c79-3696
Group exhIbItIons
Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, 2007.
provenAnce
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Glen and
Lynn Tobias, 2007
comments
The title of this work refers both to
a type of music and to the collage element near the center, which is from a
package of Celtique cigarettes, a
French brand.
present owner
Glen and Lynn Tobias
solo exhIbItIons
Waddington Galleries, London, 1975
(shown in early state), as The ‘Times’ in
Mexico.
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comments
The central white collage element in
this work was torn from the Times
(London). An earlier state of this work
was oriented with what is now the
top at the bottom (i.e., rotated 180
degrees). In that position it was signed
and dated 1974 at the lower right corner (Sloman photo no. 10). In 1979,
Motherwell turned the work upside
down and extended the lower gray
painted area to the edges of the support, covering over the original signature. He then re-signed it in what is
now the upper left corner. But the basic
composition remained the same.
