Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 314
c644
c645
c646
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles,
2005, cat. no. 9, color illus. p. 12.
c645
group exhibitions
Herter Art Gallery, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, 1987 (traveling), illus. p. 27.
1980–86
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on Masonite
72 x 36 in. (182.9 x 91.4 cm)
references
William Benton Museum of Art 1988,
cover illus.; Windrow 1992, color illus.
p. 9; Caws 1996b, p. 149, illus. p. 152.
inscriptions
Recto, lower left, incised: RM 80
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 80
artist’s studio number
c80-2436
artist’s studio number
c81-2624
present owner
Collection of Robert F. and Patricia
Ross Weis
present owner
National Gallery of Art, Washington,
D.C. Gift of Lawrence Rubin 1993.66.3
provenance
Robert F. and Patricia Ross Weis, 1988
provenance
Lawrence Rubin, 1981; National
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1993
comments
This work was begun in 1979 and completed before being exhibited at the
Harcus Krakow Gallery in May 1980.
It was shown under the title Time
Present and Time Past, which comes
from the first line of T. S. Eliot’s poem
“Burnt Norton” (1935), the first of his
Four Quartets. The printed collage element, which has a newspaper motif,
was torn from the same kind of fish and
chips bag as the one used in Beside the
Sea with Fish and Chips (c604) and
other works (see also c601, c620, c622,
and c639). The painted-out label within
the black oval is from Mark, Fore &
Strike, a sporting goods company.
302
collages
Brasileira
group exhibitions
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,
Ridgefield, Conn., 1987.
references
Pleynet 1989b, color illus. p. 123.
comments
The basic composition of this collage
was set in 1980. Motherwell revised it
in 1986 by adding purple paint to the
upper half of the lithographic
reproduction of the Reynitas
Cigarrilhos label. The same printed
element appears in a number of earlier
works (see c527 and c626).
c646
Bouquet for Marina
1980
Acrylic, pasted papers, and charcoal on
canvas board
24 x 30 in. (61 x 76.2 cm)
comments
The title of this work refers to Marina
Rubin, the wife of Lawrence Rubin,
then the director of Knoedler &
Company.
