Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 342
c711
and Banach 2003, no. 348). The collage
was used as a maquette for two 1985
prints: Redness of Red (Engberg and
Banach 2003, no. 354) and Redness of
Red (State I) (Engberg and Banach
2003, no. 355).
The sheet music is from Mozart’s
Arietta “Oiseaux, si tous les ans”
(Birds, If Every Year; k. 307/284), which
Motherwell also used in c855.
Our reproduction comes from a
Polaroid photograph of the work in
Motherwell’s studio taken around 1984.
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Portrait
1984/1991
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
board
22¾ x 11¼ in. (57.8 x 28.6 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left, incised and inscribed:
RM 85
Verso (on backing board) [painted over]:
[illegible] R. Motherwell Sept 1984
[(for Renate) (xmas 1984)]
artist’s studio number
c84/85-3616
present owner
Collection of Shelby and Lee Chaden
provenance
Renate Ponsold Motherwell, 1984;
Robert Motherwell, 1991; Dedalus
Foundation, 1991; Jonathan Novak
Contemporary Art, 2005; Shelby and
Lee Chaden, 2006
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comments
This collage incorporates a fragment
from a 1984 aquatint, At the Edge
(Engberg and Banach 2003, no. 345).
Motherwell later added a fragment
from another print, Window, 1991
(Engberg and Banach 2003, no. 515).
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c713
Untitled
1984
Acrylic, pasted papers, pasted Mylar,
and graphite on board
15 x 10 in. (38.1 x 25.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 84
artist’s studio number
c84-3245
present owner
Private collection, London
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Leslie Sacks
Fine Art, Los Angeles, 2002; private
collection, London, 2006
solo exhibitions
Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa
Monica, Calif., 2002.
group exhibitions
Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Los Angeles,
2005.
references
Vanity Fair 1984, color illus. p. 78
(detail).
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