Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 286
c580
c580
c581
Grey Presence
The Spanish Poet
1976
Acrylic, pasted canvas, and charcoal on
canvas mounted on board
48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
1976
Acrylic, pasted canvas, and pasted
papers on canvas mounted on board
72 x 36 in. (182.9 x 91.4 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower left: Motherwell
21 Aug 76
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: Motherwell
15 Sept 76
Verso: “Grey Presence” Aug 1976
R. Motherwell
ArtIst’s studIo number
c76-2776
ArtIst’s studIo number
c76-2676
present owner
The William Benton Museum of Art,
University of Connecticut, Storrs. The
Louise Crombie Beach Memorial
Collection and gift of the Dedalus
Foundation
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenAnce
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
comments
The collage element in this work is
a strip of canvas, approximately nine
inches wide and fully painted over,
that runs vertically down the center.
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collages
provenAnce
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; William
Benton Museum of Art, University of
Connecticut, Storrs, 1995
references
Caws 2003, cover color illus., illus.
p. 34 (ill. 23).
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comments
The title of this work alludes to a
postage stamp bearing the image of
the Spanish Romantic poet José de
Espronceda (1808–1842) that is pasted
on the torn brown wrapping paper at
the center. The same kind of stamp
appears on Untitled (c525).
c582
c582
5th of October (with Black and
Green)
1976
Acrylic, pasted canvas, and pasted
papers on canvas mounted on Masonite
48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left: 5 Oct 76
R Motherwell
present owner
Fisher Collection, New York
provenAnce
Neil and Sharon Norry, 1977; Fisher
Collection, New York, 1997
