Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 266
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River Liffey (Dublin)
Alternative Titles: Liffey; River Liffey;
River Liffey, Dublin (for James Joyce);
Liffey River (Dublin); Liffey River
1975
Acrylic and pasted paper on Upson
board
72 x 24 in. (182.9 x 61 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: Motherwell 75
Verso: “ ‘liffey’ river (dublin)”
artist’s studio number
c75-971
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2001; private collection
solo exhibitions
Knoedler & Company, New York, 1976,
cat. no. 1, as Liffey.
Centro Cultural de la Caixa de
Pensions, Barcelona, 1980 (traveling),
cat. no. 15, as Riu Liffey (River Liffey);
Madrid, cat. no. 15, color illus. n.p., as
Rio Liffey (River Liffey).
Provincetown Art Association and
Museum, Mass., 1983 (traveling), as
River Liffey, Dublin (For James Joyce).
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo,
1983 (traveling), cat. no. 80, color illus.
p. 111, as River Liffey; not shown in
Seattle and Washington, D.C.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, 1984, cat. no. 28, as River
Liffey.
Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery,
Cooper Union, New York, 1988,
cat. no. 28.
Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea,
Milan, 1989, cat. no. 15, color illus.
p. 41.
Knoedler & Company, New York,
April 1991, cat. no. 31.
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City,
1991 (traveling), cat. no. 48, color illus.
p. 59.
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, 2001,
cat. no. 40, color illus. p. 59.
group exhibitions
Neuhoff Gallery, New York, 2002, color
illus. p. 27, as Liffey River.
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