Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 267
c533
references
Andre 1976, p. 119, as Liffey; Arnason
1977b, color illus. n.p. (pl. 301, as The
River Liffey); Arnason 1982, color illus.
p. 201 (pl. 274, as The River Liffey,
Dublin [for James Joyce]); Firestone
1982, p. 116, as The River Liffey;
Advocate Summer Guide 1983a, illus.
p. 6, as River Liffey; Albright-Knox Art
Gallery Calendar 1983, illus. p. 2, as
River Liffey; Forman 1983, p. 13, as
River Liffey; Duffy 1984, pp. 60, as River
Liffey, 92; Pasadena Star-News 1984,
illus. (upside down); Glenn and Glenn
1988, n.p., as River Liffey; Pleynet
1989b, p. 56, color illus. p. 147, referred
to in text and in illus. as The River
Liffey Dublin (for James Joyce); Flam
1991, color illus. n.p. (pl. 116); Jennings
1991, p. 19, as The River Liffey, Dublin
(for James Joyce); Pleynet 1991, pp. 24,
26, as River Liffey, illus. p. 16; Caws
1996b, p. 104, illus. p. 107, referred to
in text and in illus. as The River Liffey,
Dublin (for James Joyce); Chalumeau
1998, color illus. p. 20 (pl. 16, as The
River Liffey, Dublin [for James Joyce]);
Pleynet 1998, pp. 99–100, as The River
Liffey; Caws 2003, color illus. p. 144
(ill. 92).
comments
The title of this work refers to the river
Liffey, which runs through Dublin and is
central to James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.
Despite the way the title is
inscribed on the verso, Motherwell
preferred River Liffey to Liffey River.
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Blue Music
Sacre du Printemps
1975
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on board
40 x 20 in. (101.6 x 50.8 cm)
1975
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on Masonite
48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: Motherwell 75
inscriptions
Recto, lower left: Motherwell
27 Oct 75
present owner
Unknown
provenance
Private collection, 1976; unknown
owner
artist’s studio number
c-981
present owner
Private collection, Canada
references
Arnason 1977b, p. 86.
provenance
Private collection, Canada, 1979
comments
The sheet music fragment in this
collage is from Mozart’s Das Bandel:
“Liebes Mandel, wo ist’s Bandel?”
(k. 441), which was first used in The
Baltic Sea Bride No. 1 (c431) and subsequently in a number of other collages.
references
Arnason 1977b, back cover color illus.,
color illus. n.p. (pls. 299, 300, in studio); Kramer 1977a, color illus. p. 17
(in studio).
comments
The sheet music in this work is an
enlarged lithographic reproduction of
part of the score of Igor Stravinsky’s Le
sacre du printemps, which was made for
Motherwell by Tyler Graphics Ltd.
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