Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 343
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comments
This collage incorporates a fragment of
a 1984 print, At the Edge (Engberg and
Banach 2003, no. 345). The work
served as the model for a 1986 collage
print, Galería Joan Prats: Untitled
(Engberg and Banach 2003, no. 376).
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Untitled
St. Michel Collage with Blue
A Storm of White
1985
Graphite and pasted paper on paper
11½ x 14½ in. (29.2 x 36.8 cm)
1985
Acrylic and pasted paper on canvas
mounted on board
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
1984–85
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on board
40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: R Motherwell
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: Motherwell 84
Recto, lower right, incised [painted
over]: [RM]
artist’s studio number
c84-3028
artist’s studio number
c85-3015; c85-3105
present owner
Unknown
present owner
Private collection
provenance
The artist
provenance
Private collection, 1987; private collection, ca. 1987
comments
This collage was begun in 1984 and
revised into the version reproduced
here after it was returned from consignment at Knoedler & Company early in
1985. Its title is taken from a 1960
poem of the same name by Robert
Duncan.
Our reproduction of this work has
been cropped from a 1985 studio slide.
We do not know whether this work still
exists in the form illustrated here.
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 85
artist’s studio number
d85-3233
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
comments
The collage element in this work is a
mailing envelope with a drawing by
Motherwell on it. We have classified this
work as a collage rather than a drawing
because of the way it is signed on the
support sheet and not the pasted element, which indicates that Motherwell
intended the pasted element to be part
of the larger composition.
comments
This collage incorporates a fragment of
a 1979 lithograph and screen print, St.
Michael III (Engberg and Banach 2003,
no. 237). Motherwell added the blue
and yellow areas of paint that surround
the collage elements after the work was
photographed in June 1985 (Sloman
photo no. 1326). It was consigned to
Knoedler & Company in October 1986.
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