Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 257
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studio, 294); Kramer 1977a, color illus.
p. 17 (in studio, in progress); Centro
Cultural de la Caixa de Pensions
exh. cat. 1980, illus. n.p. (in studio);
Serraller 1980, illus. p. 32 (in studio);
Arnason 1982, p. 87, color illus. p. 85
(pl. 86, in studio), color illus. p. 191
(pl. 264, in studio, in progress);
Albright-Knox Art Gallery exh. cat.
1983, color illus. p. 109 (cat. no. 77);
Ashton 1983, p. 43, color illus. p. 109;
Raynor 1994, illus. sec. 13, p. 18
(in studio).
comments
This work is signed with the date “Feb
75,” but studio photographs reveal that
Motherwell continued to work on it
through the fall of that year; it was photographed in its final state in November
1975. The title refers to the curving
white vertical form, which suggests a
conflation between a swan’s head and
a phallus.
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In Memoriam: Wittenborn
Collage
1975
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on board
72 x 36 in. (182.9 x 91.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: RM March 75
artist’s studio number
c75-1215
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
Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1976
(traveling), cat. no. 56, color illus. p. 85,
illus. p. 113.
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de
Paris, 1977.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh,
1977.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1978,
cat. no. 42, illus. p. 22.
William Benton Museum of Art,
University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1979,
cat. no. 70 (brochure); cat. no. 79 (catalogue), color illus. p. 32, color illus.
p. 90 (in exhibition).
Centro Cultural de la Caixa de
Pensions, Barcelona, 1980 (traveling),
cat. no. 13.
Knoedler & Company, New York,
February 1981, cat. no. 7.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo,
1983 (traveling), cat. no. 76, color illus.
p. 108.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, 1984, cat. no. 15.
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,
1993.
as In Memoriam Wittenborn; Terenzio
1979, p. 3; Hughes 1983, p. 70, color
illus. p. 69; Danieli 1984, illus. p. 1;
Inje 1984, illus.; Shere 1984, sec.
Calendar, p. 4; National Museum
of Contemporary Art exh. cat. 1988,
color illus. p. 645 (fig. 5); Pleynet
1989b, color illus. p. 120; Flam 1991,
color illus. n.p. (pl. 115); Chalumeau
1998, color illus. p. 20 (pl. 15); Focillon
and Ceuleers 2008, color illus. n.p., as
In Memoriam George Wittenborn.
comments
This collage contains wrapping paper
from a book sent to Motherwell by
Wittenborn and Company on February
18, 1975. The publisher and bookseller
George Wittenborn (born in 1905),
whose firm Wittenborn, Schultz, Inc.,
had published the Documents of
Modern Art series from 1944 to 1960
(with Motherwell as the editor until
1952), died on October 15, 1974.
references
Arnason 1977b, p. 196, color illus. n.p.
(pl. 266); Cohen 1977, color illus.
p. 231 (in studio); Morrin 1979, p. 13,
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