Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 306
c626
Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte,
N.C., 2006, cat. no. 3.
references
Glenn 1984, color illus. p. 89 (installation view).
comments
Motherwell set the composition of
this collage in 1978, and it was first
photographed that December (Sloman
photo no. 766). Sometime after this,
he repainted the triangular area on the
right side of the work from its original
red to the present black. The work was
in its final form by the time it was photographed again in May 1979 (Sloman
photo no. 780). The Long Point Gallery
first exhibited it in 1979 as McCartney
in Brazil, but it was subsequently sold
under the title Brazil. Despite the reference to Paul McCartney, the sheet
music in this collage is from Mozart’s
Sonata movement in G minor, Allegro,
for piano (k. 312).
This work is closely related to the
1977 collage Step Inside Love (c596),
which contains an enlarged lithographic
294
collages
reproduction of a Reynitas Cigarrilhos
package and sheet music by McCartney;
it is also closely related to the collage
Delicados (c598), which was originally
known as McCartney in Mexico.
c627
c627
c628
Heiliger Geist
Goethe in Italy
1975–78
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
board
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
1978
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on board
48 x 36 in. (121.9 x 91.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left, incised: RM 75
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: RM 10 Nov 78
artist’s studio number
c75-951; c78-2184
artist’s studio number
c78-2198
present owner
Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Los Angeles
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Knoedler & Company, 1985; private
collection, Cologne, Germany, 1987;
[Sotheby’s, New York, May 15, 2008,
lot 307, illus. (not sold)]; Leslie Sacks
Fine Art, Los Angeles, 2008
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2005
group exhibitions
Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Los Angeles,
2008, as Untitled (Holy Ghost).
references
Drudi 1983, color illus. n.p.
comments
The title of this work, Heiliger Geist,
is German for “Holy Spirit.”
solo exhibitions
William Benton Museum of Art,
University of Connecticut, Storrs, 1979,
cat. no. 95 (catalogue), illus. p. 19, illus.
p. 48 (in exhibition).
Centro Cultural de la Caixa de
Pensions, Barcelona, 1980 (traveling),
cat. no. 21.
Knoedler & Company, New York,
February 1981, cat. no. 22.
