Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 240
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Wake VII at the Ace Gallery in July–
August 1975; that version had dark
painted tones over most of the left side
of the work and at the lower right
corner.
Sometime after the collage was
returned from the Ace Gallery in
October 1975, Motherwell repainted
the ground light blue, added a green
rectangular form on the left side of
the picture, and placed a label from
E. Coudray, a French perfumer, at the
center of the green painted area. The
work was then shown at the Janie C.
Lee Gallery in March–April 1978 as
Finnegans Wake VII, with Green, and
it remained on consignment to the
gallery until 1983, when it was lent to
an exhibition in Provincetown. In 1984
Motherwell revised the work again,
adding black over much of the green.
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Blue Music
1974–77
Acrylic and pasted papers on Upson
board
72 x 24 in. (182.9 x 61 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: R Motherwell 74
artist’s studio number
c74-957
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Private collection, 1988
solo exhibitions
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown,
Mass., 1979, cat. no. 8.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, 1984, cat. no. 82.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1985
(traveling), cat. no. 78.
references
Forman 1979, p. 13, illus. p. 13;
Motherwell in Forman 1979, p. 13;
Arnason 1982, p. 87, color illus. p. 189
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collages
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(pl. 263); Drudi 1984, illus. p. 105 (in
studio), illus. p. 107; Tucker 1987, sec.
2, p. 8; Drudi 1988b, illus. p. 111 (in
studio), illus. p. 113 (in studio); Pleynet
1989b, p. 57, color illus. p. 59; Jennings
1991, p. 19; Museum Morsbroich exh.
cat. 2004, color illus. p. 91.
comments
Motherwell began this work in 1974
(studio inventory photo no. ph 61-5).
Both the sheet music—from Mozart’s
“An die Hoffnung” (To Hope; k. 390/
340c)—and the signature and date at
the upper right were added later, sometime between April 1975, when the
work appears in its intermediate state
in a studio photograph, and October
1977, when it was photographed in its
final state (Sloman photo no. 485).
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Collage with German Sheet
Music
1974–77
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
board
72 x 24 in. (182.9 x 61 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: RM 74
artist’s studio number
c74-1181
present owner
Unknown
provenance
Unknown owner, ca. 1980
references
Drudi 1984, illus. p. 104 (in studio);
Drudi 1988b, illus. p. 110 (in studio);
Raynor 1994, illus. sec. 13, p. 18 (in
studio).
comments
A black-and-white photograph of the
earliest known version of this work was
taken around September 1974 (studio
inventory photo no. ph 61-8). In it, the
