Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 309
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series and related works, seems to
have been inspired by an anonymous
seventeenth-century Japanese ink
painting consisting of a single horizontal brushstroke, Ichi (One), which
Motherwell had acquired in 1968.
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Airy Blue Collage (Blue
Overcoming Gold)
Alternative Title: Beige on Ultramarine
1968/1979
Acrylic and pasted paper on paper
30¼ x 22 in. (76.8 x 55.9 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: Motherwell 68
Recto, lower right [painted over]:
[illegible]
ArtIst’s studIo number
c68-426; c68-2318
present owner
Private collection
provenAnce
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2008
solo exhIbItIons
Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, 1968, cat. no. 5 (shown in
early state), as Beige on Ultramarine.
Galleria d’Arte il Gabbiano, Rome,
2006, cat. no. 7, color illus. p. 19, as
Airy Blue Collage.
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Group exhIbItIons
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,
Richmond, 1969 (shown in early state),
as Beige with Ultramarine.
comments
This collage was begun in 1968, related
to works such as Figuration on Blue
(c245). In Motherwell’s datebook entry
for May 26, 1979, he noted, “sleep +
paint—revise ’68 blue collage with
drunk turpentine,” a reference to the
way the black linear forms in this work
resemble those in the Drunk with
Turpentine series (see w541–w623),
with which he was then currently
engaged.
c634
The Cotswold Villager
1979
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on board
40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left: R. Motherwell
July 1979
ArtIst’s studIo number
c79-2356
present owner
Unknown
provenAnce
Diane and Steven Jacobson, 1981; private collection, 1982; unknown owner
solo exhIbItIons
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown,
Mass., 1979, cat. no. 19.
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State
University, Kans., 1979.
comments
The collage element in this work contains paper from an airmail package
addressed to Motherwell’s summer
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