Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 262
c526
c526
Roth-Händle with Black
Window
1975
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on board
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
cigarettes. Motherwell was originally
given a Roth-Händle package by
Kynaston McShine, a curator at the
Museum of Modern Art, in October
1969.
c527
c527
Brasileira
1975
Acrylic, pasted paper, and graphite on
canvas mounted on board
48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: Motherwell July 75
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: R Motherwell
Aug 75
present owner
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
promised gift of the estate of Hugo V.
Neuhaus Jr.
Verso (on backing board) [partially
torn]: [“brAsIleIrA”] 15 August 1975
R. Motherwell acrylic + collage on
sized canvas (mounted) 48 x 36"
provenAnce
Hugo V. Neuhaus Jr., 1976; Museum of
Fine Arts, Houston
ArtIst’s studIo number
c75-2207
solo exhIbItIons
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, 1976.
comments
The collage element at the lower
center of this work is a trial proof from
Motherwell’s aquatint Roth-Händle II
(see Engberg and Banach 2003, no. 185).
Roth-Händle is a German brand of
250
collages
present owner
Private collection
provenAnce
Douglas S. Cramer, 1979; [Christie’s,
New York, May 14, 2008, lot 119, illus.];
private collection, 2008
comments
The title of this collage takes its name
from the phrase “Industry Brasileira,”
which appears on the green collage
element near the center, which is an
enlarged lithographic reproduction (by
Tyler Graphics Ltd.) of a package from
Reynitas Cigarrilhos, a brand of cigars
manufactured in Bahia.
Motherwell also gave the title
Brasileira to a later collage (c645).
