Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 295
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The Manchester Guardian
1977
Acrylic, pasted papers, and charcoal on
canvas mounted on board
35⅞ x 24 in. (91.1 x 61 cm)
comments
Part of a page from the Manchester
Guardian Weekly newspaper is placed
near the center of this collage. In 1966
Motherwell used pages from the
Manchester Guardian Weekly in a series
of collages (c170–c175).
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Havana
1977
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on board
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: RM 77
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 77
artist’s studio number
c77-933
artist’s studio number
c77-5196
present owner
Private collection, Zurich
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, Zurich, 2005
provenance
H. H. Thyssen-Bornemisza, 1978;
[Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York,
May 9, 1984, lot 12, illus.]; Marisa del
Re Gallery, Inc., 1984; [Sotheby’s, New
York, November 11, 1988, lot 175,
illus.]; private collection, 1988
solo exhibitions
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City,
1991 (traveling), cat. no. 50, color illus.
p. 63.
Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia,
2005.
group exhibitions
Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York,
1977, cat. no. 135, color illus. n.p.
references
Drudi 1983, color illus. n.p.; Caws
1996b, p. 161, illus. p. 162, color illus.
n.p.; Caws 2003, illus. p. 169 (ill. 119).
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth,
1979 (traveling), cat. no. 105, color illus.
p. 125, illus. p. 171.
comments
The title of this collage refers to the
inner cover from a box of H. Upmann
Cuban cigars that is placed at its center. Among the other collage elements
is a fragment of an unidentified newspaper that features stories about socialist land reform policies in Portugal.
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