Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 258
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references
Greenwich Time 1976a, p. 9; Kramer
1976a, p. 21.
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Black Palette
Swiss Collage
Red R with Orange Stripes
1975
Acrylic, pasted canvas, and pasted
papers on canvas mounted on board
72 x 24 in. (182.9 x 61 cm)
1975
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on board
48 x 24 in. (121.9 x 61 cm)
1975
Acrylic, pasted papers, and graphite on
canvas mounted on board
48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: Motherwell
17 March 75
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: Motherwell
April 75
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left: RM 75
present owner
Unknown
present owner
Private collection, Munich
provenAnce
Gertrude Kasle, 1975; [Christie’s,
New York, May 4, 1993, lot 6, illus.];
unknown owner, 1993
provenAnce
Unknown owner; [Christie’s, New York,
November 21, 1996, lot 207, illus.];
private collection, Munich, 1996
solo exhIbItIons
Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, 1975.
solo exhIbItIons
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco,
1975.
Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit, 1975,
cat. no. 8.
references
Colby 1975, sec. F, p. 2; Arnason 1977b,
p. 84, color illus. n.p. (pls. 249, 268, in
studio); Arnason 1982, pp. 84, 87, color
illus. p. 191 (pl. 264, in studio).
246
collages
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, 1976.
references
Arnason 1977b, illus. n.p. (pl. 268, in
studio); Cohen 1977, color illus. p. 233
(in studio); Kramer 1977a, color illus.
p. 17 (in studio).
Recto, lower right [painted over]:
[Motherwell May 75]
present owner
Private collection
provenAnce
Private collection, 1976; [Sotheby Parke
Bernet, Inc., New York, May 15, 1980,
lot 569A, illus.]; private collection and
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles,
1980; private collection, 1982
solo exhIbItIons
Knoedler & Company, New York, 1976,
cat. no. 13.
Group exhIbItIons
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles,
1980.
comments
The “Red R” in the title of this work
refers to part of the customs label on
the mailing wrapper at the center, in
which a large, slightly faded capital R is
stamped next to the printed text “8029
Zürich 29 Hirstaden 169.”
