Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 273
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[ Untitled (Blue, Green, Swiss
Envelope)]
At the Beginning of Spring
Orange Rectangle and Black
London Collage
1976
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on Masonite
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
1976
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
board
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
1975–76
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
board
41½ x 24 in. (105.4 x 61 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower left, incised and inscribed:
Motherwell 76
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 76
inscriptions
Recto not signed, not dated
present owner
Collection of Daum Museum of
Contemporary Art. Gift of Dr. Harold
F. Daum
artist’s studio number
c75-5470
provenance
Private collection, 1977; Harold F.
Daum, 1977; Daum Museum of
Contemporary Art, 1984
provenance
Private collection, 1979; Stephens, Inc.,
1980
1976
Acrylic and pasted paper on canvas
board
35⅞ x 24 in. (91.1 x 61 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left, incised: RM 76
artist’s studio number
c76-990
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2004
comments
The collage element in this work is part
of an envelope with a Zurich postmark
that reads “11.7.74.”
present owner
Collection of Kenneth and Judy
Dayton
provenance
Kenneth and Judy Dayton, 1976
comments
The title of this collage refers to the
sheet music used in it, Mozart’s “Im
Frühlings Anfang” (At the Beginning
of Spring; k. 597).
group exhibitions
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art,
Sedalia, Mo., 2002.
present owner
Stephens, Inc.
group exhibitions
Acquavella Contemporary Art, New
York, 1975.
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock,
1988, illus. p. 86.
references
Betti and Sale 1980, p. 329, illus. p. 329
(fig. PG.8).
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