Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 294
c600
c600
Gauloises Collage
1977
Acrylic, pasted papers, and graphite on
paper
14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm); composition as shown 6¼ x 4 in. (15.9 x
10.2 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: RM 77
artist’s studio number
c77-3325
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2004
group exhibitions
Drawing Center, New York, 1977
(traveling), as Gaulois Collage.
references
Wallach 1977a, pt. 2, p. 11, illus. pt. 2,
p. 11 (as Gauloise Collage).
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collages
comments
The title of this collage refers to the
blue Gauloises cigarette package that
figures so prominently in the composition. Motherwell contributed this
collage to a project initiated by Joan
Davidson of Artists Postcards, Inc., in
which artists were asked to contribute
works in a 4 x 6–inch format to be
reproduced and distributed as postcards, and to be shown as part of a
traveling exhibition called Artists’
Postcards. The painted area of this
collage is roughly 6¼ x 4 inches, but
the full sheet on which it was done
measures 14 x 11 inches.
c601
c601
The Times (London)
1977
Acrylic, pasted papers, and charcoal on
canvas mounted on board
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: RM 77
artist’s studio number
c77-925
present owner
Collection of the McNay Art Museum.
Museum purchase with the Alvin
Whitley Fund and gift of the Dedalus
Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; McNay Art
Museum, San Antonio, Tex., 1996
group exhibitions
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown,
Mass., August 1978, cat. no. 23, as The
London Times.
Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, 1978.
references
Hornack 1978, p. 9, as The London
Times.
comments
The central collage element referred
to in the title is a facsimile of a page
torn from the Times (London), dated
August 6, 1968, which was printed on
an American fish and chips bag that
Motherwell used in a number of other
collages; see the Comments for Beside
the Sea with Fish and Chips (c604); see
also c620, c622, c639, and c644.
