Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 305
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comments
This collage takes its title from the
small dark blue “Par Avion” (airmail)
label that is pasted to the brown shipping paper addressed to Motherwell,
from the pale blue Gauloises Caporal
cigarette package at the center of the
work, and from the two pieces of sheet
music. The sheet music on the left is
from Mozart’s Sonata movement in
G minor, Allegro, for piano (k. 312).
The sheet music on the right is from
Mozart’s Arietta “Dans un bois
solitaire” (In a Lonely Wood), for
vocalist with piano accompaniment
(k. 308/295b).
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Untitled
Key West
McCartney in Brazil
1978
Pasted papers, ink, and lithograph on
paper
29¾ x 21¾ in. (75.6 x 55.2 cm)
1978
Acrylic, pasted papers, crayon, and
graphite on canvas mounted on board
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: RM 78
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right, incised: RM 78
Alternative Title: [Brazil ]
1978–79
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on board
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
present owner
Unknown
ArtIst’s studIo number
c78-2199
provenAnce
Private collection, 1978; unknown
owner
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
comments
This collage contains pieces of torn
red paper and sheet music pasted on a
proof of Motherwell’s 1978 lithograph
Oy/Yo (Engberg and Banach 2003,
no. 227). The sheet music is from
Mozart’s Sonata movement in G minor,
Allegro, for piano (k. 312). Our reproduction of the work comes from an
early 4 x 6–inch color photograph.
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left: RM 10 Oct 78
ArtIst’s studIo number
c78-2196
provenAnce
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
present owner
Collection of Norma and Myron H.
Goldberg Art Trust
comments
Motherwell painted the yellow stripes
on the paper used as the ground for this
work in a manner that recalls his early
painting The Little Spanish Prison (p3).
provenAnce
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Barbara
Mathes Gallery, New York, 2000;
Norma and Myron H. Goldberg Art
Trust, 2000
solo exhIbItIons
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown,
Mass., 1979, cat. no. 18.
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State
University, Kans., 1979.
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