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with a parenthetical color description
to match its primary hue. After these
works had been framed, Motherwell
signed them and inscribed the titles on
the verso, directly on the framer’s tape.
Unfortunately, the color descriptions of
the two works were mixed up: this work
was mistakenly inscribed “ascending
(blue)”; but the blue collage has no
verso inscription. The error was subsequently corrected, but the inscriptions
remain.
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c592
Ascending (Blue)
Terzetto
1976
Acrylic, pasted papers, and china
marker on canvas mounted on board
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
Alternative Title: Yellow Stripes, with
Music
1977
Acrylic, pasted papers, and graphite on
canvas mounted on board
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
group exhibitions
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson,
N.Y., 1977, as Yellow Stripes, with Music.
inscriptions
Recto, upper right, incised and
inscribed: R Motherwell 17 Jan. 77
comments
This collage takes its title from the
sheet music, Mozart’s Terzetto
“Mi lagnerò tacendo” (I Complain
in Silence) for two sopranos and bass
(k. 437), here translated into German
and arranged for piano.
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 19 Dec 76
present owner
Collection of Ronna and Eric Hoffman
comments
See the Comments for Ascending (Red)
(c590).
artist’s studio number
c77-1190
present owner
Unknown
provenance
Private collection, 1978; unknown
owner
solo exhibitions
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de
Paris, 1977.
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh,
1977.
Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1978,
cat. no. 50.
collages
Knoedler & Company, New York, 1978,
cat. no. 38, illus. p. 23.
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provenance
Ronna and Eric Hoffman, 1977
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references
Maloon 1978, illus. p. 21; SZ
(Spediteur-Zeitschrift) 1978, illus.
