Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 337
c702
group exhibitions
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield
Hills, Mich., 2001, color illus. p. 65.
references
Siegel 1984, p. 6; Cranbrook Journal
2002, illus. n.p.
comments
This collage incorporates a fragment of
a 1983 print, Black Mountain (State I)
(Engberg and Banach 2003, no. 301),
a wrapper from a La Socculante brand
Spanish orange, and sheet music
from Mozart’s “Mi lagnerò tacendo”
(I Complain in Silence; k. 437), from
an edition with the lyrics translated
into German.
c702
Nip and Tuck
1984
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on board
40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
c703
references
Tatransky 1985, illus. p. 37.
c703
comments
The sheet music in this collage is from
the manuscript of an unidentified
Stabat Mater; see the Comments
for c687.
1984
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on board
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
Yeats’ Tower
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: Motherwell 84
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: R. Motherwell 84
artist’s studio number
c84-3014
artist’s studio number
c84-3015
present owner
Lillian Heidenberg Fine Art and
Miriam Shiell Fine Art
present owner
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Richard A.
Brodie
provenance
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco,
1988; private collection, San Francisco;
[Bonhams and Butterfields, San
Francisco and Los Angeles, November
19, 2007, lot 1114, illus.]; Lillian
Heidenberg Fine Art and Miriam Shiell
Fine Art, 2007
provenance
Private collection, 1984; Mr. and Mrs.
Richard A. Brodie, 2008
solo exhibitions
Knoedler & Company, New York,
October 1984, cat. no. 5, color illus.
p. 6.
solo exhibitions
Knoedler & Company, New York,
October 1984, cat. no. 19, color illus.
p. 11.
comments
This collage incorporates a fragment of
a destroyed 1967 drawing, Oval (Black
Calligraphy) (known from studio inventory photo no. ph 5-11); another fragment from the same drawing appears in
co lla ges
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