Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 333
c692
c693
c691
c692
The Primrose Path
Saraband
1984
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on board
30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 61 cm)
1984
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
board
30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 61 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: Motherwell 84
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 84
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 84
artist’s studio number
c84-3023
artist’s studio number
c84-3034
artist’s studio number
c84-3013
present owner
Private collection
present owner
Private collection, Sunshine, Md.
present owner
Michael and Ilene Salcman, Baltimore
provenance
Private collection, 1984; [Christie’s,
New York, May 4, 1995, lot 167, illus.];
private collection, 1995
provenance
Private collection, Sunshine, Md., 1984
provenance
Private collection, 1984; Michael and
Ilene Salcman, Baltimore, 1986
solo exhibitions
Knoedler & Company, New York,
October 1984, cat. no. 16, illus. frontispiece (in studio), color illus. p. 11.
solo exhibitions
Knoedler & Company, New York,
October 1984, cat. no. 20, color illus.
p. 12.
references
Seeney 1984, p. 8, as Sarabande;
Berman 1985, p. 108.
comments
This collage includes a fragment of
sheet music from the Sarabande
(which Motherwell chose to spell
“Saraband”) of Bach’s English Suite
no. 5 in E minor (bwv 810). Below this
is a fragment of an unidentified Stabat
Mater; see the Comments for c687.
c693
Dancing Elegy
1984
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on board
24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm)
solo exhibitions
Knoedler & Company, New York,
October 1984, cat. no. 18, color illus.
p. 11.
Baltimore Museum of Art, 2006.
group exhibitions
Knoedler & Company, New York,
September 1986, cat. no. 3.
references
Berman 1985, p. 108; Salcman 2007,
cover color illus.
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