Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 336
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They Are Not Heard at All
Black and White Striped
1984
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on board
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
1984
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on Masonite
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: Motherwell 84
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: RM 84
Recto, lower left: RM 84
artist’s studio number
c84-3029
artist’s studio number
c84-3000
artist’s studio number
c84-3009
present owner
Private collection
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Private collection, 1988; private
collection
present owner
Collection of Cranbrook Art Museum,
Bloomfield Hills, Mich. Gift of Rose
M. Shuey, from the collection of Dr.
John and Rose M. Shuey
solo exhibitions
Knoedler & Company, New York,
October 1984, cat. no. 17, color illus.
p. 11.
provenance
Dr. John and Rose M. Shuey, 1984;
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield
Hills, Mich., 2002
comments
The title of this collage alludes to a
line in Rudyard Kipling’s poem “The
Fabulist”: “Unless men please they
are not heard at all.”
solo exhibitions
Knoedler & Company, New York,
October 1984, cat. no. 9, illus. frontispiece (in studio), color illus. p. 7.
The Philosopher’s Stone
1984
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on board
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right [painted over]:
[illegible]
provenance
Maurice P. Leibovitz, 1984; [Sotheby’s,
New York, May 3, 1995, lot 303, illus.];
private collection, 1995
solo exhibitions
Knoedler & Company, New York,
October 1984, cat. no. 15, color illus.
p. 10.
references
Seeney 1984, p. 8.
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collages
comments
The title of this collage refers to the
legendary elixir of life, the alchemical
substance that was supposed to be
capable of turning base metals into
gold, and to hold the possibility of
achieving immortality.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1985
(traveling), cat. no. 80, color illus. p. 26
(fig. 25).
