Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 256
c513
Cultural de la Caixa de Pensions
exh. cat. 1980, illus. n.p. (in studio);
Arnason 1982, color illus. p. 85 (pl. 86,
in studio); Braun-Munk 1991, color
illus. p. 73 (installation view).
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In Celebration
1975
Acrylic, pasted canvas, pasted papers,
and charcoal on canvas mounted on
board
72 x 36 in. (182.9 x 91.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: Motherwell 75
present owner
Stanford Law School. Gift of Richard
Lang, AB 1927, JD 1929
provenance
Stanford Law School, 1975
comments
This collage was commissioned in 1975
by the Stanford Law School. A limitededition lithograph based on this collage,
with the same title (Engberg and
Banach 2003, no. 192), was created
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to commemorate the opening of a new
Stanford Law School building, the
Crown Quadrangle, on September
26–27, 1975.
The color and composition of this
collage have affinities with Matisse’s
paper cutout La Danseuse, ca. 1949
(see fig. 143 in volume 1), which was
owned by Motherwell. The reference to
Matisse was probably a conscious tribute on Motherwell’s part, since he first
saw Matisse’s work at the home of
Michael Stein while he was a student
at Stanford.
c514
Leda
1975
Acrylic and pasted papers on board
48 x 24 in. (121.9 x 61 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: Motherwell Feb 75
Verso not seen [“titled on the reverse,”
per Sotheby’s 1997]
present owner
Private collection, Philadelphia
provenance
Private collection, 1977; private collection, 1987; [Sotheby’s, New York,
November 20, 1997, lot 109, illus.];
private collection, Philadelphia, 1997
references
Arnason 1976, p. 25; Arnason 1977b,
p. 86, color illus. n.p. (pls. 292, in
