Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 335
c697
comments
The earliest known version of this
collage, signed and dated 1979, was
photographed in September of that
year (Sloman photo no. 889).
Motherwell continued to rework the
collage over the next several years,
re-signing and dating it several times.
In 1984 he incorporated fragments
from a 1983 etching and aquatint,
Black Mountain (State I) (Engberg and
Banach 2003, no. 301), and he consigned the finished collage to Knoedler
& Company that June.
c697
Sand Music
1984
Acrylic and pasted papers on
canvas mounted on board
40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: R. Motherwell
May, 84
artist’s studio number
c84-3022
present owner
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. M. Klebanoff
provenance
Mr. and Mrs. M. Klebanoff, 1984
references
Knoedler & Company exh. cat.
October 1984, illus. n.p. (in studio);
Vanity Fair 1984, color illus. p. 79 (in
studio, in progress).
comments
This collage incorporates sheet music
from Mozart’s “Sei du mein Trost”
(also known as “Die, Einsamkeit vertrau ich”; k. 391/340b) and a fragment
from a 1984 print, Flesh Automatism
(Engberg and Banach 2003, no. 346).
c698
c698
Odd Numbers
Alternative Title: The Inquisitors
1984
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on board
40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: Motherwell 84
Verso [circled ]: [“the inquisitors”
1984]
artist’s studio number
c84-3032
present owner
Collection of Carolyn and Preston
Butcher
provenance
Carolyn and Preston Butcher, 1988
solo exhibitions
Knoedler & Company, New York,
October 1984, cat. no. 7, illus. frontispiece (in studio), color illus. p. 6.
group exhibitions
Queens Museum, N.Y., 1986 (traveling), illus. p. 59.
references
Lipson 1986, illus. pt. 3, p. 19 (upside
down); Brunet-Weinmann 1987, color
illus. p. 40 (fig. 2).
comments
This collage was inscribed on the verso
as “the inquisitors” and dated “1984”
by Motherwell, but it was first exhibited
at Knoedler & Company in 1984 as
Odd Numbers, and was subsequently
sold under that title.
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