Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 269
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Pas de Deux No. 2
Pas de Deux No. 3
1975
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on Masonite
40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
1975
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on Masonite
48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower left: Robert Motherwell/
Nov 75
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left: RM 75
present owner
Private collection, Switzerland
provenAnce
Private collection, Switzerland, 1977
comments
The sheet music in this collage is a
lithographic reproduction from Igor
Stravinsky’s Le sacre du printemps.
Verso not seen [“signed, titled and
dated ‘Pas de Deux #3’ Robert
Motherwell Nov. 75,” per Christie’s
1991]
present owner
Unknown
provenAnce
John Kluge, 1976; [Christie’s, New
York, May 1, 1991, lot 40, illus.]; private
collection, 1991; private collection,
1992; private collection, 2006;
unknown owner
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comments
Our reproduction comes from an
early color slide of this work. The sheet
music is a lithographic reproduction
from Stravinsky’s Le sacre du printemps.
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Paper Night
1975
Acrylic, pasted canvas, and pasted
papers on canvas mounted on board
72 x 24 in. (182.9 x 61 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left, incised: Motherwell
75
present owner
Mr. and Mrs. George Walker
provenAnce
Mr. and Mrs. George Walker, 1977
references
Arnason 1977b, p. 86, color illus. n.p.
(pl. 302); Arnason 1982, p. 87, illus.
p. 86 (pl. 90).
solo exhIbItIons
Knoedler & Company, New York, 1976,
cat. no. 7.
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