Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 287
c583
c583
c584
c585
references
Baillie 1977, p. 8.
c584
c585
Oaxaca
Sardinian Collage
comments
The title of this work refers to the fragment of Mozart’s “Un moto di gioia”
(An Emotion of Joy; here, in German,
as “Schon klopfet mein liebender
Busen”; k. 579) in which the lyric “Lieb
und das Glück” (Love and Luck) is
repeated several times.
1976
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on board
48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
1976
Acrylic, pasted canvas, pasted papers
on canvas mounted on board
70¾ x 35 in. (179.7 x 88.9 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right, incised: RM
25 Oct 76
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: Motherwell
Nov 76
artist’s studio number
c76-1214
artist’s studio number
c76-985
Verso: “sardinian collage”
present owner
Private collection
present owner
Private collection, United Kingdom
Verso: R Motherwell Nov 76 (collage
+ acrylic on sized canvas)
provenance
Private collection, 1978; private
collection, 1978
provenance
Private collection, 1978; Waddington
Galleries, London, 2001; private
collection, United Kingdom, 2001
artist’s studio number
c76-2205
Lieb und das Glück
1976
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on board
72 x 36 in. (182.9 x 91.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: Motherwell
6 Oct 76
solo exhibitions
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. 48.
Verso [painted over]: [illegible] [illegible]
present owner
Private collection, Cologne
provenance
Private collection, Cologne, Germany,
1987
references
Kipphoff 1980, illus. p. 29; Drudi 1983,
color illus. n.p.
Knoedler & Company, New York, 1978,
cat. no. 35, illus. p. 9 (in exhibition),
illus. p. 23.
co lla ges
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