Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 237
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The Times in Mexico II
All Hallow’s Eve
Geneva Collage
1974–75
Acrylic and pasted papers on Upson
board
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
1974–75
Acrylic and pasted papers on Upson board
72 x 24 in. (182.9 x 61 cm)
Alternative Title: The Geneva Mail
1974
Acrylic and pasted papers on Upson
board
72 x 36 in. (182.9 x 91.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: Motherwell Aug 74
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: Motherwell
20 Aug 74
Verso (on top horizontal strainer):
“the ‘times’ in mexico, ii” 1974
Verso (on top horizontal strainer):
“all hallow’s eve”
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: R Motherwell
21 Aug 74
artist’s studio number
c74-1447
present owner
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Liberman
Verso (on top horizontal strainer):
“the geneva mail” 1974
provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Liberman, 1977
present owner
Knoedler & Company
solo exhibitions
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, 1975
(in early state).
provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Shoenberg,
1975; [Christie’s, New York,
November 13, 2008, lot 158, illus.
(not sold)]; Knoedler & Company,
2008
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Private collection, 1978
comments
This work was photographed in an
early state in 1975 (Sloman photo
no. 11). Sometime after that,
Motherwell painted the upper gray
collage element black.
Dart Gallery, Chicago, 1976, cat. no. 7.
references
Rothschild 1978a, illus. p. 48 (in studio).
comments
An early version of this work was exhibited
at the David Mirvish Gallery in April 1975.
Motherwell later added black paint to
the lower half, over the original orange
ground.
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references
Ellenzweig 1975, color illus. p. 21;
Lipman and Franc 1976, p. 184, color
illus. p. 185; Arnason 1977b, pp. 84, 86,
color illus. n.p. (pl. 247); Arnason 1982,
pp. 84, 87, illus. p. 83 (pl. 81).
comments
One of the pasted elements in this
collage is wrapping paper from a package sent from Geneva to the writer
B. H. Friedman. The title of this collage
was inscribed as The Geneva Mail,
and it was first consigned to Knoedler
& Company under that title. It was
renamed Geneva Collage by the time it
was shown at Knoedler & Company in
January 1975.
solo exhibitions
Knoedler & Company, New York,
January 1975, cat. no. 6.
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