Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 296
c604
c604
Beside the Sea with Fish and
Chips
1977
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on board
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left, incised and inscribed:
RM 77
artist’s studio number
c77-919
present owner
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum.
Gift of Jeffrey H. Loria in honor of Julie
Lavin (Class of 1986)
provenance
Private collection, 1980; Jeffrey H.
Loria; Mount Holyoke College Art
Museum, South Hadley, Mass., 2005
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collages
group exhibitions
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum,
South Hadley, Mass., 2008.
comments
Both the title and the compositional
format of this collage refer to
Motherwell’s 1962 Beside the Sea
series. The “Fish and Chips” of the title
refers to the collage element at the center of the composition, which includes a
bag printed with a newspaper motif
overprinted with a red-and-white logo
reading “Hot Fish & Chips.” Similar
bags also appear in other works; see
c601, c620, c622, c639, and c644.
c605
Xylol
solo exhibitions
Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City,
Mo., 1978.
1977
Acrylic, pasted papers, and graphite on
canvas mounted on board
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
group exhibitions
Cleveland Museum of Art, 1986, color
illus. n.p. (fig. 29).
inscriptions
Recto, lower left: RM 77
artist’s studio number
c77-947
present owner
Collection of Mitchell Shaheen
provenance
Private collection, 1981; private collection; Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Brodie,
1988; private collection, 1992; Mitchell
Shaheen, 1992
comments
The title of this work is taken from the
label from a bottle of Xylol brand paint
thinner and solvent that is placed at
its center.
