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Museum of Art, Munson-WilliamsProctor Institute, Utica, N.Y., 1988.
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Untitled (Blue with Black
Note)
Delicados
Cantata XIII
1980
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
board
9¾ x 8⅛ in. (24.8 x 20.6 cm)
1980–81/ca. 1983
Acrylic, pasted papers, and graphite on
Masonite
24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm)
Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette
College, Easton, Pa., 1989.
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right, incised: RM 80
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left: RM 80
Morris Museum, Morristown, N.J.,
1992.
ArtIst’s studIo number
c80-2527
ArtIst’s studIo number
c80/81-2494
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, 1993.
present owner
Private collection, California
present owner
Collection of Bobbi and Walter Zifkin
provenAnce
Private collection, 1980; Knoedler &
Company, 1980; private collection,
1980; private collection, 1980; private
collection, California, 2005
provenAnce
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Bobbi and
Walter Zifkin, 1999
1980
Acrylic and pasted paper on canvas
board
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left: RM 80
ArtIst’s studIo number
p80-2529
present owner
Private collection, Erlenbach
provenAnce
Private collection, Erlenbach,
Switzerland, 1984
comments
The piece of pasted paper at the upper
center of this work has been completely
painted over in blue.
comments
The collage element at the center of
this work is an enlarged lithographic
print of a Delicados cigarette package.
Another collage that uses the same kind
of package is also titled Delicados (c598).
solo exhIbItIons
Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona, 1986
(traveling), Barcelona, cat. no. 37, color
illus. n.p.; Palma de Mallorca, cat.
no. 37, color illus. n.p.; Madrid, cat.
no. 37, color illus. n.p.
Group exhIbItIons
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown,
Mass., August 1983.
Knoedler & Company, New York, 1983,
cat. no. 9, color illus. p. 17.
University of Iowa Museum of Art,
Iowa City, 1991.
references
Arnason 1982, color illus. p. 223 (in
early state); Glenn 1984, cover color
illus. (installation view), color illus.
p. 87 (installation view); Campoy 1987,
illus. p. 101; Cinco Dias 1987, illus.;
Erausquin 1987; Pleynet 1989b, p. 57,
color illus. p. 58, as Cantate No. 13;
Flam 1991, p. 18, color illus. n.p.
(pl. 130); Bonet 1996, p. 11, color illus.
p. 11; Chalumeau 1998, color illus.
p. 19 (pl. 14); Caws 2003, pp. 24, 166,
color illus. p. 25 (ill. 16).
comments
The title refers to the number XIII
printed on the sheet music from
Mozart’s Eine kleine deutsche Kantate
co lla ges
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