Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 340
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c708
The Marriage
Alternative Title: Achilles’ Anger
1984
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
board
40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
solo exhIbItIons
Knoedler & Company, New York,
October 1984, cat. no. 2, color illus.
p. 3.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, 1984, cat. no. 3.
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: R Motherwell 84
Galería Joan Prats, Basel Art Fair,
Switzerland, 1991, cat. no. 8 (sec.
“Paintings”), color illus. n.p.
Verso not seen [“titled on verso
‘Achilles’ Anger,’ ” per studio card]
references
Gaugh 1985, p. 75, color illus. p. 71.
ArtIst’s studIo number
c84-3026
comments
This collage was consigned to Knoedler
& Company in June 1984 as Achilles’
Anger, and was returned to the artist
that November. When Motherwell sent
the work to Knoedler again in 1987, he
had changed the title to The Marriage.
present owner
A. Distler, Munich
provenAnce
Private collection, 1989; A. Distler,
Munich
328
collages
c709
Heart of Darkness
Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago,
December 2005 (traveling), cat. no. 3.
1984
Acrylic and pasted papers on board
39½ x 29½ in. (100.3 x 74.9 cm)
Group exhIbItIons
Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago,
March 2005, color illus. n.p.
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: Motherwell 84
comments
The title of this collage refers to Joseph
Conrad’s novel of the same name.
ArtIst’s studIo number
c84-3043
present owner
Private collection
provenAnce
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2007
solo exhIbItIons
Knoedler & Company, New York,
October 1984, cat. no. 12, color illus.
p. 7.
