Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 241
c479
work had a two-toned ground, with a
darker tone in the upper portion.
The sheet music is from a revised
edition of Mozart’s “Des kleinen
Friedrichs Geburtstag” (For the
Birthday of Little Prince Friedrich;
k. 529), in which Daniel Jäger’s poem
“Arete” was used; the first words of
that poem are visible here.
It is unclear when the sheet music
was added; a photograph of the work in
its final state was taken around 1977.
Our reproduction comes from an
early color photograph of this work.
c480
c481
c479
c480
c481
{ Title unknown}
Blue and White on Orange
No. 1
Blue and White on Orange
No. 2
1974
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
board
24 x 12 in. (61 x 30.5 cm)
1974
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
board
24 x 11¾ in. (61 x 29.8 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 3 Sept 74
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: Motherwell 74
present owner
Unknown
artist’s studio number
c74-492
artist’s studio number
c74-258
provenance
The artist
present owner
Private collection, New York
comments
This collage is known only from an
8 x 10–inch color transparency taken
in Motherwell’s Greenwich studio on
November 11, 1974 (Sloman photo
no. 19). We do not know whether this
collage ever left the studio, or whether
it still exists in the form illustrated here.
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, New York, 2006
present owner
Collection Bernard Jacobson Gallery,
London
1974
Acrylic and pasted papers on Upson
board
72 x 36 in. (182.9 x 91.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: Motherwell
31 Aug 74
comments
Motherwell made a number of collages
with the restricted means of blue and
white collage elements on an orange
ground, but several of them were
painted over. Only this work and one
other collage (c481) were given titles
and numbers in what he called the
Blue and White on Orange series.
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Bernard
Jacobson Gallery, London, 2005
group exhibitions
Broadbent, London, 2009.
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