Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 253
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Das Kinderspiel
1975
Acrylic, pasted canvas, and pasted
papers on canvas
48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: R. Motherwell 75
artist’s studio number
c75-3636
present owner
Collection of the Modern Art Museum
of Fort Worth. Museum purchase, the
Friends of Art Endowment Fund
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Modern Art
Museum of Fort Worth, 1993
solo exhibitions
Dart Gallery, Chicago, 1976, cat. no. 5.
The Modern at Sundance Square,
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,
1998.
references
Museo Rufino Tamayo exh. cat. 1991,
illus. p. 90 (in studio); Tyson 1993a,
color illus. p. 1; Tyson 1998, sec. F, p. 7,
illus. sec. F, p. 1; Galleria d’Arte il
Gabbiano exh. cat. 2006, illus. p. 26
(in studio), illus. p. 28 (in studio).
comments
This collage takes its title from the
sheet music near the center, which is
from Mozart’s “Das Kinderspiel”
(Children’s Game; k. 598).
c507
Lebensreise
1975
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on Masonite
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower left: R Motherwell 75
artist’s studio number
c75-2669
present owner
Collection Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis. Gift of Margaret and
Angus Wurtele and the Dedalus
Foundation, 1995
c507
Museo Dolores Olmedo Patiño,
Mexico City, 2008, color illus. p. 55.
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art,
Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.,
2009, cat. no. 36.
group exhibitions
Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Conn.,
1986, erroneously as Ledensreise.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2005.
comments
The title of this work refers to the
sheet music, which is from Mozart’s
Lebensreise (“Wenn den langen Weg”)
(Life’s Journey [When the Long Way];
k. 468).
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis, 1995
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,
1993.
solo exhibitions
Knoedler & Company, New York, 1976,
cat. no. 6.
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,
1994.
B. R. Kornblatt Gallery, Baltimore,
1976.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1996,
cat. no. 33.
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