Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 243
c485
c486
c485
c486
c487
Untitled
Untitled
In Ultramarine with Scarlet II
1974
Acrylic and pasted papers on Upson
board
72 x 24 in. (182.9 x 61 cm)
1974
Acrylic, pasted paper, and china marker
on canvas board
30 x 25 in. (76.2 x 63.5 cm)
1974
Acrylic, pasted paper, and china marker
on canvas board
30 x 24¾ in. (76.2 x 62.9 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left: Motherwell
18 Sept 74
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left, incised: Motherwell
Sept 74
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left, incised: Motherwell
74
present owner
Private collection, Seoul
present owner
Unknown
Verso (on top horizontal strainer):
“In ultrAmArIne wIth scArlet II”
provenAnce
Corporate Collection of USX, 1975;
[Christie’s, New York, May 8, 1990,
lot 152, illus. (not sold)]; [Christie’s,
New York, May 2, 1991, lot 163, illus.];
private collection, Seoul, 1991
provenAnce
Private collection, 1975; unknown
owner
present owner
Private collection, Switzerland
solo exhIbItIons
Knoedler & Company, New York,
January 1975, cat. no. 3.
comments
Motherwell may have meant for this
work to be titled In Ultramarine with
Scarlet I, but it remains untitled. See
the Comments for c487.
Group exhIbItIons
Acquavella Contemporary Art, New
York, 1974.
c487
however, an untitled 1974 work with a
similar structure (c486) that may have
been intended as part of a series along
with this work.
provenAnce
Private collection, 1976; private collection, Switzerland, 1976
Group exhIbItIons
Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland,
1976, cat. no. 58, color illus. n.p.
comments
Although this collage is given the
number II, there are no other known
numbered works with the title In
Ultramarine with Scarlet. There is,
co lla ges
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