Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 283
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this small piece of paper is part of a
shipping label from the Royal Academy
of Art, London, where a retrospective
of Motherwell’s work was held from
January 14 to March 19, 1978.
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Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de
Paris, 1977.
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William Benton Museum of Art,
University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1979,
cat. no. 82 (brochure); cat. no. 87 (catalogue), color illus. p. 9, illus. p. 48 (in
exhibition).
1976–80
Acrylic, pasted canvas, pasted papers,
and charcoal on canvas mounted on
board
70 x 35 in. (177.8 x 88.9 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: Motherwell
May 76
Centro Cultural de la Caixa de
Pensions, Barcelona, 1980 (traveling),
cat. no. 16; Madrid, cat. no. 16, color
illus. n.p.
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: Motherwell 76–80
Verso (on top horizontal strainer)
[crossed out]: “voluptuness, wIth
bAr sInIster” [blAck bAr] 76
Knoedler & Company, New York,
February 1981, cat. no. 21.
Voluptuousness with Bar
Sinister
1976
Acrylic, pasted canvas, and pasted
papers on canvas mounted on board
72 x 36 in. (182.9 x 91.4 cm)
ArtIst’s studIo number
c76-1566
present owner
Unknown
provenAnce
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2000; unknown owner
solo exhIbItIons
Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1976
(traveling), cat. no. 66, color illus. p. 93,
illus. p. 114.
references
Der Spiegel 1976, p. 169; Franzke 1977,
p. 66; Pomarède and Delaroière 1978,
illus. n.p.; Highwater 1979; Rubio 1980,
color illus. p. 21; Scott 1979; Highwater
1986, p. 217; Pleynet 1989b, p. 54, color
illus. p. 151; Caws 1996b, p. 99, illus.
p. 98; Caws 2003, pp. 121, 173, illus.
p. 123 (ill. 82).
In Scarlet with Black
ArtIst’s studIo number
c76-80-2501; c80-2501
present owner
Collection of Hunter College
provenAnce
Hunter College, New York, 1983
comments
The title of this work may refer to a
book Motherwell had once owned,
K. G. Ballard’s Bar Sinister, published
in 1960.
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