Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 259
c519
c519
c520
In Black with Folded Paper
Fragment
Hartley in London
1975
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on board
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower left: Motherwell
2 May 75
present owner
Private collection, Vancouver
provenance
Private collection, 1975; private
collection, Vancouver, 1978
solo exhibitions
Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, 1975.
1975
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
board
48 x 24 in. (121.9 x 61 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: Motherwell April
1975
present owner
Unknown
provenance
Private collection; [Sotheby Parke
Bernet, Inc., New York, May 5, 1986,
lot 19, illus.]; unknown owner, 1986
solo exhibitions
B. R. Kornblatt Gallery, Baltimore,
1976.
group exhibitions
Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York,
1977, cat. no. 130, color illus. n.p.
references
Arnason 1977a, p. 536, color illus.
p. 517 (pl. 221); Arnason 1977b, p. 86,
color illus. n.p. (pls. 268, in studio,
c520
269); Cohen 1977, color illus. p. 233
(in studio); Kramer 1977a, color illus.
p. 17 (in studio); Arnason 1982, p. 87,
color illus. p. 191 (pl. 264, in studio);
Arnason 1986, p. 406, illus. p. 407
(fig. 602).
comments
Motherwell had also used a cardboard
box from William P. Hartley, Ltd.,
jam in his collage Hartley in Germany
(c484).
Our reproduction of this work
comes from the 1986 Sotheby Parke
Bernet auction catalogue.
c521
c521
Cambridge Collage
1975
Acrylic, pasted cardboard, and pasted
papers on canvas mounted on board
47¼ x 23¼ in. (120 x 59.1 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM May 75
present owner
Unknown
provenance
Veith Turske, Cologne, Germany, 1978;
[Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York,
May 9, 1984, lot 54, illus. (not sold)];
unknown owner
group exhibitions
Galerie Isernhagen, Germany, 1979.
Turske & Turske, Zurich, 1985, color illus.
n.p.
references
Winter 1982, color illus. p. 77.
comments
One of the collage elements in the lower
part of this work is a cardboard mailing
box sent to Motherwell by Bowes &
Bowes, the Cambridge booksellers, postmarked July 15, 1974.
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