Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 24
c9
(pl. 11); Arnason 1982, pp. 29, 73, illus.
p. 30 (pl. 21); Mattison 1985b, illus.
n.p. (fig. 107).
comments
This work is said to have been “accidentally destroyed” (Arnason 1982,
p. 30). Our reproduction of it comes
from an early black-and-white photograph (Juley photo no. 38; j0004833).
The vertical forms that frame the two
ovals appear to be the exposed paperboard ground on which the work was
constructed. Motherwell would revisit
this kind of image in several later works,
first in an early state of the painting In
Black and Pink with the Number Four
(p353), where it is still visible in the
pentimenti, and again in an untitled
1973 collage (c416).
c10
Viva
1943–44
Oil, ink, pasted paper, and crayon on
paperboard
29 x 21½ in. (73.7 x 54.6 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: Motherwell
artist’s studio number
c43/44-5172
present owner
Private collection, Houston
c10
references
O’Hara 1975, p. 77; Mattison 1985b,
pp. 171–72, illus. n.p. (fig. 148);
Mattison 1987, pp. 71, 111–12, 144–45;
Pleynet 1989b, pp. 25, 29–30, illus.
p. 29; Flam 1991, illus. n.p. (pl. 4).
comments
This collage has been assigned dates
ranging from 1943 to 1946. The earlier
date seems more likely, based on its
style and on the 1943–44 date assigned
to it in early exhibition records. The
word viva also appears in View from a
High Tower (c17) and Viva (c33).
c11
Mallarmé’s Swan
Alternative Title: Mallarmé’s Dream
1943–44
Gouache, pasted wood veneer, pasted
sandpaper, pasted papers, crayon,
charcoal, and ink on cardboard
43½ x 35½ in. (110.5 x 90.2 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: Motherwell 1944
provenance
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, 1946; private
collection, ca. 1947; James Martone,
New York, ca. 1948; Edward A. Hinkle,
Cleveland, 1964; [Sotheby Parke
Bernet, Inc., New York, May 5, 1986,
lot 62, illus.]; Fayez Sarofim, 1986;
private collection, Houston
group exhibitions
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York,
May 1946 (?).
Cleveland Museum of Art, 1967.
Cleveland Museum of Art, 1972,
cat. no. 71.
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collages
Verso of c11
