Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 319
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references
Navarra 1989, sec. F, p. 12, color illus.
sec. F, p. 1.
comments
The sheet music in this collage is from
Mozart’s “Ein deutsches Kriegslied” (A
German War Song; k. 539).
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[ Untitled (Hans Hartung)]
Red Music
Cathedral III
Alternative Title: Untitled
1980
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on Masonite
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
1980
Acrylic and pasted paper on Masonite
20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
1977–80
Acrylic, pasted papers, and crayon on
paper
22½ x 14⅜ in. (57.2 x 36.5 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 1980
artist’s studio number
c80-2498
present owner
Collection of Ms. Mary Beth Buck
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Mary Beth
Buck, 2000
solo exhibitions
Knoedler & Company, New York,
February 1981, cat. no. 18, as Untitled.
group exhibitions
Knoedler & Company, New York,
February 2000.
comments
Near the lower center of this collage there
is a torn envelope sent from the painter
Hans Hartung to Lawrence Rubin, then
the director of Knoedler & Company.
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: RM 80
Verso: “red music” R. Motherwell
1980
artist’s studio number
c80-2503
present owner
Private collection of Christina and
Robert C. Baker
provenance
Private collection, 1983; Christina and
Robert C. Baker, 1985
comments
The title of this collage refers to the
very small piece of unidentified sheet
music at the center.
inscriptions
Recto, lower left [circled]: [RM 77]
artist’s studio number
c77-2256; c77/80-2437
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
comments
An early version of this collage was
begun in 1977 and consigned to
Knoedler & Company from May 1979
to January 1980, when it was returned
to Motherwell. Shortly afterward, he
added the brown paint and the line
drawing near the center, and drew a
circle around his original signature. The
collage was completed by the time it
was photographed in February 1980
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