Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 279
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Nelson Whitehead with Green
Arches Cover
1976
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on board
40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
1976
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on board
39 x 29 in. (99.1 x 73.7 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower left: RM 5 March 76
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: RM 6 March 76
present owner
Pamela West
artist’s studio number
c76-1937
provenance
Private collection, 1976; [Christie’s,
Los Angeles, October 14, 1998, lot 47,
illus.]; Pamela West, 1998
present owner
Private collection
comments
The title of this collage refers to the
small, torn fragment of brown wrapping
paper, which includes a label from
Andrews/Nelson/Whitehead, a New
York supplier and manufacturer of fine
artists’ papers. The sheet music is a
lithographic reproduction of Stravinsky’s
Le sacre du printemps.
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2007
solo exhibitions
Dart Gallery, Chicago, 1976, cat. no. 3.
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, May
2005, cat. no. 13.
group exhibitions
Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago,
2004, cat. no. 14, color illus. n.p.
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comments
The title of this collage refers to the
label from a package of fifty sheets of
29 x 41–inch, 250-gram Arches cover
paper that is placed near its center.
This paper was used in Motherwell’s
1976 aquatint and etching Red Sea I
(Engberg and Banach 2003, no. 193), a
print published in conjunction with the
publication of H. H. Arnason’s monograph Robert Motherwell (Arnason
1977b).
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The Star of David
1976
Acrylic, pasted canvas, and pasted
papers on canvas mounted on board
48 x 24 in. (121.9 x 61 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: Motherwell 76
present owner
Collection of Mr. Mark Bidner
provenance
Bernard and Marian Barnett, 1977;
[Sotheby’s, New York, November 18,
1999, lot 364, illus.]; private collection,
1999; Mark Bidner
comments
The title of this collage refers to the
image of the Star of David used in the
logo of the Danish organization For
Israels Ret til at Bestå (For Israel’s
Right to Exist). Motherwell had a work
reproduced on a postcard for this organization around the same time; see
the Comments for The Spanish Death
(p838).
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