Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 276
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Autumn No. 2
1976
Acrylic, pasted canvas, and pasted
papers mounted on board
48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left: R Motherwell
8 Feb 76
Verso not seen [“titled, dated, and
inscribed with medium and dimensions
on reverse,” per Sotheby’s 1982]
present owner
Unknown
provenAnce
Frederick and Marcia Weisman, 1977;
[Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York,
November 4, 1982, lot 76, illus.];
unknown owner, 1982
references
Arnason 1976, illus. p. 8.
comments
The printed collage element in this
work is an enlarged lithographic
reproduction of an Ernte 23 cigarette
264
collages
package. Ernte is the German word
for “harvest,” and inspired the title of
this work.
Motherwell titled another, dissimilar collage Autumn (c414).
Our reproduction comes from an
early color slide of this work.
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c555
Music for Monique
Alternative Title: A Bouquet for Monique
1976
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on board
35¾ x 24 in. (90.8 x 61 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: Motherwell 76
present owner
Unknown
provenAnce
Lee V. Eastman, ca. 1976; unknown
owner
solo exhIbItIons
William Benton Museum of Art,
University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1979,
cat. no. 80 (brochure); cat. no. 86 (catalogue), illus. p. 48 (in exhibition), color
illus. p. 90 (in exhibition), illus. p. 112.
references
Morrin 1979, p. 13; Pleynet 1989b,
color illus. p. 121, as A Bouquet for
Monique; Scarpetta 1989–90, color illus.
p. 115, as A Bouquet for Monique.
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comments
The sheet music in the upper part of
this collage is a lithographic reproduction of part of the score of Schoenberg’s
Chamber Symphony no. 1 for 15 solo
instruments, op. 9; it is combined
with part of the score for Stravinsky’s
Le sacre du printemps, which is below
it. The title of this collage refers to
Monique Eastman, the wife of Lee
Eastman, Motherwell’s attorney
in the 1970s.
