Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 248
c496
solo exhibitions
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State
University, Kans., 1979.
references
Winter 1982, color illus. p. 76; Hunter
and Jacobus 1985, pp. 278, 279, 378,
color illus. p. 279 (fig. 500); Hunter,
Jacobus, and Wheeler 2004, p. 278,
color illus. p. 279 (fig. 500); Frederick
R. Weisman Philanthropic Foundation
2007, p. 245, color illus. p. 170 (installation view), color illus. p. 244, as
Stravinsky: Spring.
comments
The sheet music fragment in this work
is a lithographic reproduction of part of
the score of Igor Stravinsky’s Le sacre
du printemps, turned upside down. The
Läkerol pastilles box at the lower center
is also a lithographic reproduction.
This collage was begun in 1974 and
photographed in an early state that year.
Motherwell added the black areas
sometime after it was returned to him
from consignment at Knoedler &
Company in January 1975.
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collages
c497
c497
The Dutch Hat
1974
Acrylic, pasted papers, oil stick, and
graphite on Upson board
72 x 36 in. (182.9 x 91.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right, incised: RM 74
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Private collection, 1976; Knoedler &
Company, 1981; private collection, 1981
solo exhibitions
David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, 1975.
no. 16). Motherwell later repainted the
ground black, and added the black gestural marks in the upper rectangular
form and the three vertical lines in the
lower rectangle.
It is unclear whether these revisions
were done before the work was sent to
the David Mirvish Gallery in January
1975, or sometime after it was returned
to the artist in late May of that year.
The work was in its final form by the
time it was consigned to the Watson de
Nagy Company in October 1975.
c498
c498
Metaphor and Movement
1974
Acrylic and pasted papers on Upson
board
48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower left: RM 8 Dec 74
artist’s studio number
c74-5202
present owner
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo.
George B. and Jenny R. Mathews
Fund, 1977
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, 1976.
provenance
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo,
1977
references
Moser 1976, sec. 2, p. 6; Rothschild
1978a, illus. p. 48 (in studio);
Drohojowska 1988, p. 109.
solo exhibitions
Knoedler & Company, New York,
January 1975, cat. no. 1.
comments
An early version of this work, composed
of three papers pasted on a light red
ground, was photographed on
November 11, 1974 (Sloman photo
William Benton Museum of Art,
University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1979,
cat. no. 69 (brochure); cat. no. 71 (catalogue), illus. p. 44 (in exhibition), color
illus. p. 107 (in exhibition), illus. p. 115.
