Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 249
c499
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo,
1983 (traveling), cat. no. 69, color illus.
p. 103.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, 1984, cat. no. 81.
references
Duffy 1984, illus. p. 60; Fowler 1984,
illus. sec. A, p. 15; Regan 1984, illus.
sec. Review, p. 12; Richard 1984, sec. D,
p. 13; Wallach 1984b, illus. pt. 2, p. 5;
Polcari 1991, p. 308; Waldman 1992,
p. 221, illus. p. 221 (pl. 290); Caws
1996b, pp. 141, 142, illus. p. 143;
Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery,
Columbia University, exh. cat. 1997,
illus. p. 83 (fig. 1); Caws 2003, pp. 117,
125, illus. p. 117 (ill. 77).
c500
c499
c500
Sacre du Printemps
Corsican Collage
1974
Acrylic and pasted papers on Upson
board
48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
1974
Acrylic and pasted papers on Upson
board
48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: For Heidi + Claus
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM Dec 74
Recto, lower left: Motherwell 1974
Verso (on top horizontal strainer):
“corsican collage” 48 x 36
present owner
Private collection, Germany
provenance
Private collection, Germany, 1974
comments
The title of this collage refers to Igor
Stravinsky’s Le sacre du printemps.
Attached to the verso of the collage is a
page torn from an advertisement for
the Hawkes Pocket Scores edition of
Stravinsky’s composition, from which
the fragment of sheet music is taken.
The dedication inscribed on the recto is
to Heidi and Claus Colsman-Freyberger,
who worked for Motherwell at the time.
for c501). This part of the package
reads: “Maison fondée en 1838
manufacture corse de tabacs france”
(Firm established 1838 corsican
tobacco factory france). Bastos cigarettes were made from tobacco grown
on Corsica and were manufactured just
south of Bastia, the island’s largest city.
present owner
Columbia Museum of Art. Collection
of Robert Y. Turner
provenance
Robert Y. Turner, 1975; Columbia
Museum of Art, S.C., 2006
solo exhibitions
Knoedler & Company, New York,
January 1975, cat. no. 9.
comments
The blue printed element on the right
side of this collage is an enlargement
produced by Tyler Graphics Ltd. of
part of a package of Bastos cigarettes,
a Corsican brand (see the Comments
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