Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 328
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The Poetics of Love
1982
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on Masonite
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
1968–82
Acrylic and pasted papers on paper
29½ x 19 in. (74.9 x 48.3 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left, incised: RM
ArtIst’s studIo number
c82-2695
present owner
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary
Art. Partial gift and promised gift to the
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary
Art by Dr. Dorothy Lincoln-Smith and
Dr. Harvey Smith
provenAnce
Dr. Harvey K. Smith and Dr. Dorothy
Lincoln-Smith, Scottsdale, Ariz., 1983;
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary
Art, Ariz., 2007
Group exhIbItIons
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary
Art, Ariz., 2007.
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collages
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left, incised: RM 68
Recto, upper left, incised [painted over]:
[RM 68]
Verso (on backing board) [crossed out]:
“poetIcs of love” [illegible] 1968
R. Motherwell
ArtIst’s studIo number
c68-2664
present owner
Fisher Collection, New York
provenAnce
Private collection, San Diego, 1983;
Fisher Collection, New York, 1989
references
Drudi 1984, illus. p. 106 (in studio);
Drudi 1988b, illus. p. 112 (in studio).
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comments
This collage is signed and dated 1968,
but we do not know what that earliest
version looked like. Motherwell reworked
it in 1982 (per a photograph of the
work in his studio), but preserved the
earlier signature.
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Self Portrait as Dog IV
1982
Acrylic, pasted papers, and graphite on
canvas
36 x 36 in. (91.4 x 91.4 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, left panel, upper right: RM 82
Verso, left panel: “self portrAIt As
doG Iv” R. Motherwell 12 Sept 82
Recto, right panel, upper right: RM 82
Recto, right panel, lower right: RM
Verso, right panel, not signed, not dated
ArtIst’s studIo number
c82-2700; p82-2701
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenAnce
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
comments
This work, composed of two panels
measuring 36 x 18 inches each, is the
only real diptych created by Motherwell.
Its title alludes to Dylan Thomas’s 1940
book Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.
