Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 338
c704
Where Have You Been (c704). The sheet
music is from the manuscript of the
unidentified Stabat Mater used in c687
and other collages.
The title of this collage refers to
Thoor Ballylee, the sixteenth-century
tower on the Cloon River in county
Galway where William Butler Yeats
lived from 1919 to 1929, and about
which he wrote the poem “The Tower”
in 1928.
c704
Where Have You Been
1984
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on board
40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: Motherwell 84
artist’s studio number
c84-3010
present owner
Unknown
provenance
Private collection, 1986; unknown
owner, ca. 1986
solo exhibitions
Knoedler & Company, New York,
October 1984, cat. no. 10, color illus.
p. 7.
comments
At the center of this collage is a fragment of a 1977 print, Gesture I (State I)
(Engberg and Banach 2003, no. 203).
This collage also incorporates a fragment of a destroyed 1967 drawing, Oval
326
collages
c705
(Black Calligraphy); another fragment
from the same drawing appears in
Yeats’ Tower (c703). The sheet music in
this collage is from the manuscript of
the unidentified Stabat Mater used in
c687 and other collages.
c705
Royal Water Music
1984
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on board
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: R Motherwell 84
artist’s studio number
c84-3030
present owner
Private collection, Belgium
provenance
Irma and Norman Braman, 1984;
[Christie’s, New York, May 10, 2006,
lot 248, illus.]; private collection,
Belgium, 2006
