Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 250
c502
c501
c501
Bastos
1974
Oil and pasted paper on paper
62 x 40 in. (157.5 x 101.6 cm)
inscriptions
Recto not signed, not dated
artist’s studio number
c75-1252
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2000; [Sotheby’s, New York,
May 15, 2008, lot 164, illus. (not sold)]
solo exhibitions
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, 1976.
Century Club, New York, 1987.
238
collages
references
Cohen 1977, color illus. p. 232 (installation view); Rothschild 1978a, illus.
p. 49 (installation view).
comments
This collage, along with Corsican
Collage (c500) and Bastos (c502), is
among the first works by Motherwell in
which he used a lithographic enlargement of a printed object as a collage
element. The enlargement in this case is
a five-color lithograph made by Tyler
Graphics Ltd. of a package of Bastos
cigarettes, a Corsican brand. The writer
Arthur Cohen had brought the package
used as a model back from Europe as a
gift to Motherwell.
This collage was the maquette
for the 1975 lithograph Bastos, printed
by Tyler Graphics Ltd. (Engberg and
Banach 2003, no. 169), and can be
dated in relation to Motherwell’s work
on the lithograph, which began in
September 1974 (the edition was
printed in late January 1975).
This collage was consigned to
Knoedler & Company on January 2,
1975. On the consignment form to
Knoedler, it is dated 1974.
c502
Bastos
1974–75
Acrylic and pasted paper on canvas
mounted on board
65 x 40 in. (165.1 x 101.6 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: Motherwell 75
artist’s studio number
c74-1960
present owner
Private collection, New York
provenance
Kenneth E. Tyler, ca. 1975; [Sotheby’s,
New York, May 18, 2000, lot 394,
illus.]; private collection, New York,
2000
