Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 245
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Grey Chablis
In Darkest Stepaside
1974
Acrylic and pasted paper on canvas
board
30 x 12 in. (76.2 x 30.5 cm)
1974
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
board
30 x 24¾ in. (76.2 x 62.9 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right, incised: RM 74
inscriptions
Recto, upper left, incised:
Motherwell 74
artist’s studio number
c74-252; c74-264; c74-3778
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2006
solo exhibitions
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, 1975.
comments
The title of this collage refers to the
label from a bottle of Chablis 1er Cru
wine (Les Fourchaumes) pasted in the
lower right corner.
present owner
Private collection. Courtesy of Locks
Gallery, Philadelphia
provenance
Private collection, 1977; Ralph and
Peggy Burnet, 1987; [Christie’s, New
York, May 17, 2001, lot 195, illus.
(not sold)]; [Christie’s, New York,
September 9, 2008, lot 197, illus.];
private collection, 2008
solo exhibitions
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, 1975.
B. R. Kornblatt Gallery, Baltimore, 1976.
comments
The title of this work comes from dialogue spoken by Leopold Bloom in
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James Joyce’s Ulysses: “bloom Keep to
the right, right, right. If there is a fingerpost planted by the Touring Club at
Stepaside who procured that public
boon? I who lost my way and contributed to the columns of the Irish Cyclist
the letter headed, In darkest Stepaside.
Keep, keep, keep to the right. Rags and
bones, at midnight. A fence more likely.
First place murderer makes for. Wash
off his sins of the world” (London:
Bodley Head, 1968), p. 568.
The Irish village of Stepaside is
considered a suburb of Dublin.
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Black Refracts Heat
1974
Acrylic and pasted papers on Upson
board
48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 74
Verso (on top horizontal strainer)
[partially crossed out]: “black refracts
heat” [illegible] nov 1974. 48 x 36"
artist’s studio number
c74-1454
present owner
Collection Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis. Gift of Margaret and
Angus Wurtele and the Dedalus
Foundation, 1995
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis, 1995
solo exhibitions
Knoedler & Company, New York,
January 1975, cat. no. 11.
Waddington Galleries, London, 1975.
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