Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 284
c575
c575
In Forest Green with
Woodwinds
1976
Acrylic, pasted canvas, pasted papers,
and charcoal on canvas mounted on
board
72 x 36 in. (182.9 x 91.4 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: Motherwell
May 76
Verso (on top horizontal strainer):
“In forest Green, wIth woodwInds”
R. Motherwell May, 76
ArtIst’s studIo number
c76-1565
present owner
The Detroit Institute of Arts. Founders
Society Purchase, W. Hawkins Ferry
Fund, the Maxwell and Marjorie
Jospey Fund, and partial gift of the
Dedalus Foundation
provenAnce
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Detroit
Institute of Arts, 1995
272
collages
solo exhIbItIons
Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1976
(traveling), cat. no. 65, color illus. p. 91,
illus. p. 114.
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de
Paris, 1977, color illus. n.p.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh,
1977.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1978,
cat. no. 46, illus. p. 23.
Group exhIbItIons
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Mich.,
1998, cat. no. 6, color illus. p. 7.
references
Baillie 1977, p. 8; Franzke 1977, p. 66;
Spurling 1978, p. 230.
comments
The composition of this work, with its
two ovals set between thick vertical
bars, recalls Motherwell’s early Collage
in Black and Green (c9) and his 1973
collage Untitled (c416). It is also
directly related to a contemporaneous
collage, In Red with Two Ovals (c568).
c576
c577
c576
c577
St. Michel No. 2
Talas
1976
Acrylic, pasted canvas, 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 Masonite
72 x 36 in. (182.9 x 91.4 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: R Motherwell
27 May 76
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left: RM 76
ArtIst’s studIo number
c76-1436
present owner
Private collection
provenAnce
Private collection, ca. 1978; Manny
Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, 1999;
private collection, 1999; private collection, 1999
Group exhIbItIons
Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York,
1977, cat. no. 133, illus. n.p.
comments
This collage contains a smaller lithographic version of the St. Michel
cigarette package that was used in
St. Michel (c567).
ArtIst’s studIo number
c76-956
present owner
Barry and Bonnie Halperin
provenAnce
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Barry and
Bonnie Halperin, 2002
solo exhIbItIons
Galería Joan Prats, Basel Art Fair,
Switzerland, 1991, cat. no. 7 (sec.
“Paintings”), color illus. n.p.
comments
This collage takes its name from the
mailing label on the torn brown wrapping paper near the center, which is
from the Talas conservation materials
company in New York.
