Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 272
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Antiquariat Günter Fuchs
Rivals
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references
Ashton 1980, color illus. p. 8.
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comments
The title of this collage puns on Reval,
the name of the bright yellow German
cigarette package at the upper left,
which is also the name of the Estonian
city where Renate Ponsold Motherwell’s
father grew up.
1976
Acrylic and pasted paper on canvas
board
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
Tokyo Night
1976
Acrylic, pasted canvas, and pasted
papers on canvas mounted on board
48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
1976
Acrylic and pasted paper on canvas
mounted on board
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: Motherwell Jan 76
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right, incised: RM 76
present owner
La Colección Jumex, Mexico
Verso (on backing board): “rIvAls”
1976
ArtIst’s studIo number
c76-988
provenAnce
Joan and Fred Nicholas, 1976; La
Colección Jumex, Mexico, 1995
ArtIst’s studIo number
c76-2216
present owner
Private collection
present owner
Private collection
provenAnce
Private collection, ca. 1979; private
collection, 2008
references
Raynor 1994, illus. sec. 13, p. 18
(in studio).
comments
The title of this collage comes from the
mailing label from the German bookseller Antiquariat Günter Fuchs that is
pasted near the center.
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collages
provenAnce
Private collection, 1980
solo exhIbItIons
Dart Gallery, Chicago, 1976, cat. no. 4.
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de
Caracas, Venezuela, 1979, cat. no. 11,
illus. n.p.
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower left, incised: RM 76
references
Drudi 1983, color illus. n.p.
comments
The title of this collage refers in part
to the back of a business envelope sent
from Tokyo by the Minami Gallery,
which is placed at the lower right.
