Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 271
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Torino
Alternative Title: Torino Collage
1975–76
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on Masonite
48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right, incised:
Motherwell 75
present owner
Collection of Deborah Ronnen
provenance
Private collection, 1976; [Sotheby’s,
New York, October 5, 1989, lot 82,
illus.]; Deborah Ronnen, 1989
group exhibitions
Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, 1976,
cat. no. 6, color illus. p. 38.
Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Conn.,
1987, cat. no. 3, color illus. n.p.
references
Brown 1976, p. 18; Russell 1976a, illus.
sec. C, p. 16; Arnason 1977b, color illus.
n.p. (pl. 297, as Torino Collage).
comments
The title of this collage refers to the
brown paper shipping wrapper with a
mailing label from the Museo Civico di
Torino (postmarked September 2,
1974). Photographs taken over three
days in November 1975 (Sloman photo
nos. 333, 349, 352) documented the
creation of this collage. Motherwell
added the green paper at the bottom
before the collage was photographed
in its final state in July 1976 (Sloman
photo no. 439). The sheet music is from
Stravinsky’s Le sacre du printemps.
Motherwell also titled a collage
done in 1967 Torino Collage (c198).
c543
c543
Red Square
1975
Acrylic and pasted paper on canvas
mounted on board
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left, incised: Motherwell
Recto, upper left, incised [painted over]:
[Motherwell 75]
taken November 1975); it was repainted
blue before the work was sent to the Ace
Gallery, Los Angeles, in March 1976.
This collage appears to have been
an alternative design for Hermitage, a
print commissioned by Knoedler &
Company in conjunction with an
exhibition of Russian art from the
Hermitage Museum in Russia
(Engberg and Banach 2003, no. 180).
present owner
Private collection, Toronto
provenance
Private collection, 1976; Marianne
Friedland Gallery, Toronto, 1983;
private collection, 1983; Marianne
Friedland Gallery, Toronto, 1993;
private collection, Toronto, 1993
comments
The title of this work refers both to
Moscow’s Red Square and to the
square, predominantly red label from
the Hotel National, Moscow, which is
placed near the lower right. The background of this work was originally
painted red (Sloman photo no. 316,
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