Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 28
c13
c13
Jeune Fille
1944
Oil, pasted cloth, and pasted papers
on paperboard
24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm), approx.
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: Robert Motherwell
1944
artist’s studio number
c44-5012
present owner
Unknown
provenance
James Johnson Sweeney, 1944;
unknown owner
solo exhibitions
Art of This Century, New York,
October 1944, cat. no. 14.
Arts Club of Chicago, 1946 (traveling),
cat. no. 14.
references
Artnews 1944, illus. p. 26; Greenberg
1944b, p. 599; Stroup 1944, illus. p. 16;
Seitz 1955, p. 135, illus. n.p. (fig. 150);
16
collages
Celentano 1957, pp. 34, 98; Seitz 1983,
p. 51, illus. n.p. (fig. 162); Mattison
1985b, pp. 86, 155, illus. n.p. (fig. 95);
Greenberg 1986a, p. 240; Mattison
1987, pp. 71, 127; Mattison 1988,
p. 176; Rubenfeld 1997, p. 77; Peggy
Guggenheim Collection exh. cat. 2003,
p. 310.
comments
On a checklist for the 1946 Arts Club
of Chicago exhibition, Motherwell
wrote that this work “has a magenta
piece of cloth for eyes” (Dedalus
Foundation Archives). The magenta
cloth is the large L-shaped form at the
upper left that intersects the head and
on which the eyes are rendered. This
collage also contains a small piece of
the German wrapping paper that was
used in other collages of this period
(see the Comments for c6).
Our reproduction of this collage
comes from an early black-and-white
photograph with an Art of This
Century gallery stamp on the verso.
The collage is also visible in installation
photographs of Motherwell’s October
1944 solo exhibition at that gallery next
to other known works; it appears to
measure about 24 x 20 inches.
The curator James Johnson
Sweeney, who wrote the introductory
catalogue essay for Motherwell’s solo
exhibition at Art of This Century, was
the first owner of this work.
c14
c14
Untitled
Alternative Title: Study for Pancho Villa
Dead and Alive
1944
Pasted sandpaper, pasted papers, and
ink on paperboard
19⅝ x 14⅞ in. (49.8 x 37.8 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: R. Motherwell
1944
present owner
Ulla and Heiner Pietzsch Collection,
Berlin
provenance
Private collection; [Sotheby Parke
Bernet, Inc., New York, November 11,
1986, lot 106, illus.]; Galerie Folker
Skulima, Berlin, 1986; Ulla and Heiner
Pietzsch, Berlin, 1988
group exhibitions
Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, 1982.
Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister,
Residenzschloss, Dresden, Germany,
2000.
