Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 247
c494
references
Arnason 1977b, p. 84, color illus. n.p.
(pl. 246); Arnason 1982, p. 84, illus.
p. 83 (pl. 79).
comments
This collage includes wrapping paper
from a package sent to Motherwell by
the Art Museum, Princeton University,
postmarked June 20, 1974. Motherwell
had a solo exhibition there in January–
February 1973. At the upper right
edge of the brown wrapping paper are
two one-dollar U.S. postage stamps
commemorating the playwright
Eugene O’Neill (1888–1953), on whom
Motherwell wrote his undergraduate
thesis at Stanford.
c495
Collage with Music and
Canvas No. 2
1974
Acrylic, pasted canvas, pasted papers,
and charcoal on Upson board
72 x 36 in. (182.9 x 91.4 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 74 29
December
ArtIst’s studIo number
c74present owner
Colección Museo Tamayo Arte
Contemporáneo, conAcultA/InbA
provenAnce
Colección Museo Tamayo Arte
Contemporáneo, conAcultA/InbA,
Mexico City, 1975
solo exhIbItIons
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City,
1975, cat. no. 38, illus. n.p., as Collage
con música y lienzo (Collage with Music
and Canvas).
comments
There is no number 1 in the Collage
with Music and Canvas series; but a
related work, Collage with German
Music and Canvas (c461), may have
been conceived as such. The sheet
music fragment in this work is a lithographic reproduction (made by Tyler
Graphics Ltd.) of part of the score of
Igor Stravinsky’s Le sacre du printemps.
c495
c496
Stravinsky Spring
1974/1975
Acrylic, pasted cardboard, and pasted
papers on Upson board
48 x 24 in. (121.9 x 61 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: Motherwell
Dec 74
ArtIst’s studIo number
c74-1006
present owner
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation,
Los Angeles
provenAnce
Private collection, Switzerland; [Sotheby
Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, November
9, 1983, lot 82, illus.]; Frederick R.
Weisman, 1983; Frederick R. Weisman
Art Foundation, Los Angeles
co lla ges
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