Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 29
c15
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice,
2005, as Study for Pancho Villa Dead
and Alive.
BA-CA Kunstforum, Vienna, 2006, cat.
no. 92, color illus. p. 167, as Study for
Pancho Villa Dead and Alive.
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 2009, as
Study for Pancho Villa Dead and Alive.
references
Mattison 1985b, illus. n.p. (fig. 96).
comments
Although this work was auctioned at
Sotheby Parke Bernet in 1986 as Study
for Pancho Villa Dead and Alive, and
has been exhibited as such since then,
that title was not given by Motherwell.
While this collage has certain features
in common with Pancho Villa, Dead
and Alive (c7), such as the rendering of
the figure and the similar patterned
German wrapping paper, it was created
independently of that work and at a
later date.
c15
c16
The Sun
Collage in Beige and Black
1944
Tempera, pasted papers, and ink on
paperboard
32 x 29 in. (81.3 x 73.7 cm)
Alternative Title: In White and Beige
1944
Oil and pasted papers on paperboard
43⅜ x 29⅛ in. (110.2 x 74 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower left, incised and inscribed:
Motherwell 44
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: Motherwell 44
artist’s studio number
c44-5010
Verso not signed, not dated
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, 1945; private
collection, ca. 1946; [Sotheby Parke
Bernet, Inc., New York, April 12, 1967,
lot 27, illus.]; unknown owner, 1967;
[Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York,
February 27, 1980, lot 87, illus.]; Jeffrey
E. Horvitz, 1980; André Emmerich
Gallery, 1987; private collection, 1987
solo exhibitions
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York,
October 1949.
Verso of c15
group exhibitions
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York,
September 1946, cat. no. 13.
comments
The verso of this work contains an
unfinished collage (see figure above).
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Paul Peters and Ivan von Auw Jr.,
ca. 1944; private collection, 1972
solo exhibitions
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York,
January 1946, cat. no. 12, as In White and
Beige.
Arts Club of Chicago, 1946 (traveling),
cat. no. 17.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Robert
Motherwell, September 1965 (traveling),
New York, cat. no. 5, illus. p. 20; Amsterdam, cat. no. 7, illus. n.p.; Essen, cat.
no. 5; Turin, cat. no. 5, illus. p. 64 (pl. 4).
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