Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 330
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Untitled
Je t’aime with Gauloises Blue
1982
Pasted papers, crayon, and lithograph
on paper
29⅞ x 22¼ in. (75.9 x 56.5 cm)
Alternative Title: Gauloises Longues
1976/1983
Acrylic, pasted papers, and charcoal on
canvas mounted on Masonite
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: RM autumn, 1982
ArtIst’s studIo number
c-3836
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenAnce
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
comments
This collage was created as a maquette
for New York Portfolio: Untitled (Engberg
and Banach 2003, no. 293), part of a
print portfolio commissioned by the
New York Graphic Society. As part of
the commission, Motherwell was
required to include photographs of
cultural institutions in it. This collage
is one of the rare works in which
Motherwell included photographic
imagery.
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collages
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower left: RM 76
ArtIst’s studIo number
c76-2204; p76-3647
present owner
Collection of the Modern Art Museum
of Fort Worth. Museum purchase, the
Friends of Art Endowment Fund
provenAnce
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Modern Art
Museum of Fort Worth, 1999
solo exhIbItIons
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,
1993.
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,
1994.
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,
2004.
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Group exhIbItIons
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York,
1986.
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,
2002, color illus. p. 121, illus. p. 266.
references
Drudi 1983, color illus. n.p. (in early
state, as Gauloises Longues); Kutner
1993, sec. A, p. 23, illus. sec. A, p. 23;
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Calendar 1993, p. 5, cover illus.; Tyson
1993a, color illus. p. 1; Caws 2003,
color illus. p. 65 (ill. 43).
comments
This work was begun in 1976, when it
was titled Gauloises Longues and contained an enlarged cigarette package.
It was reproduced with that title on the
back cover of the April 1978 issue of
Artforum, in an advertisement for the
Ace Gallery. In January 1983 Motherwell
reworked the composition, covering the
blue Gauloises cigarette packages with
white paint and adding the “Je t’aime”
in charcoal. The work was then retitled
Je t’aime with Gauloises Blue.
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Australia II
1983
Pasted papers and crayon on Tycore
panel
40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: R. Motherwell
1983
ArtIst’s studIo number
c83-2897
present owner
Private collection
provenAnce
Private collection
comments
The title of this collage refers to
Australia II, the Australian boat that
won the 1983 America’s Cup. The race
was founded in 1857, and the trophy
had remained in the hands of the New
York Yacht Club for the previous 126
years. See the Comments for The
America Cup (c150).
