Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 310
c635
home in Provincetown. It contains
numerous labels, including a customs
declaration, dated August 13, 1979, from
the Cotswold Villager in Oxfordshire,
England, from which the work takes
its name.
c635
c636
Mexican Collage
Summertime in Italy No. 8
1979
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on board
35 x 23 in. (88.9 x 58.4 cm)
1977/1979
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on board
30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 61 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right, incised: RM 79
inscriptions
Recto, lower right, incised [partially
painted over]: [7]7 Motherwell
artist’s studio number
c79-2357
present owner
Collection of McCausland-Seve Family
provenance
Private collection, 1981; [Sotheby’s,
New York, February 17, 1999, lot 153,
illus.]; McCausland-Seve Family, 1999
solo exhibitions
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown,
Mass., 1979, cat. no. 2.
references
Manthorne 1990, p. 69.
298
collages
c636
artist’s studio number
c77-920
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Private collection, 1980
references
Braun-Munk 1991, color illus. p. 79
(installation view).
comments
This collage was begun in 1977
(Sloman photo no. 647), and the first
version of it was consigned briefly to
Knoedler & Company in April 1978.
After it was returned to Motherwell the
following month, he made a number of
revisions, adding the pink- and greenpainted areas, the black area in the
lower left corner, the blue lines on the
right side, and the black lines within
the pinks. The work was finished by late
1979 and consigned to Knoedler &
Company in January 1980.
For more on the Summertime in
Italy series, see c121.
