Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 277
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Cor Anglais
The Magic Flute
1976
Acrylic and pasted papers on paper
22 x 15 in. (55.9 x 38.1 cm)
1976
Acrylic, pasted papers, and china
marker on canvas mounted on board
72 x 36 in. (182.9 x 91.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower left: RM 11 Feb 76
present owner
Private collection, New York
provenance
Private collection, New York
solo exhibitions
Montclair Art Museum, N.J.,
November 1989, cover color illus.
comments
This collage takes its title from the
sheet music fragment, which reads
“Cor Anglais” (English Horn). The
sheet music is from Beethoven’s Trio
for two oboes and English horn, op. 87.
inscriptions
Recto, lower left: RM 14 Feb 76
present owner
Collection of Geri and Don Thayer
provenance
Geri and Don Thayer, 1976
group exhibitions
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
1977, cat. no. 41.
comments
Despite the Mozartian title of this
work, the sheet music is an enlarged
lithographic copy of part of the score
for Stravinsky’s Le sacre du printemps.
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Entrance
The Philosophic Mind
1976
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on board
72 x 24 in. (182.9 x 61 cm)
1976
Acrylic, pasted canvas, and pasted
papers on canvas mounted on board
72 x 24 in. (182.9 x 61 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: RM 27 Feb 76
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM Feb 76
artist’s studio number
c76-970
Verso: the philosopic mind
R. Motherwell 1976
present owner
Collection of R. W. Moncrief
present owner
Private collection
provenance
R. W. Moncrief, 1981
provenance
Private collection, 1980; private
collection
solo exhibitions
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State
University, Kans., 1979.
references
Museo Rufino Tamayo exh. cat. 1991,
illus. p. 90 (in studio); Windrow 1992,
illus. frontispiece (in studio); Miriam &
Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia
University, exh. cat. 1997, illus. p. 81 (in
studio); Galleria d’Arte il Gabbiano
exh. cat. 2006, illus. p. 28 (in studio).
solo exhibitions
Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City,
Mo., 1978.
group exhibitions
Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York,
1977, cat. no. 132, illus. n.p.
references
Kramer 1977a, color illus. p. 16 (in studio); Wolfowicz 1977, illus. p. 15 (in
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