Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 346
c722
c722
Osborn Collage
1985
Acrylic, pasted papers, and charcoal on
canvas mounted on Masonite
40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: R Motherwell 1985
artist’s studio number
c85-3127
work in 1984 (see “Writings by the
Artist,” in the Bibliography).
The sheet music at the upper left
is from Mozart’s Canzonetta “Ridente
la calma” (May a Happy Calm Arise;
k. 152/210a), for voice and piano. The
lower sheet music fragment is from
Mozart’s “Un moto di gioia” (An
Emotion of Joy; here, in German, as
“Schon klopfet mein liebender Busen”;
k. 579), arranged for voice and piano.
c723
c723
American Collage
1985
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on board
40½ x 30½ in. (102.9 x 77.5 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: Motherwell 85
Verso not seen [“R. Motherwell 1985,”
per studio card]
present owner
Private collection
artist’s studio number
c85-3139
provenance
Private collection, 1986
present owner
Private collection
group exhibitions
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, 1986.
provenance
Private collection, 1986
comments
This collage includes part of a package
(postmarked July 13, 1961) sent from
La Belle Jardinière, a department store
in Paris, to Motherwell’s friend, the
artist Robert Osborn (1904–1994),
whom he first met in Taxco, Mexico, in
1941. Motherwell wrote the introductory essay for a catalogue of Osborn’s
references
Mathew 1986, p. 1.
334
collages
comments
This collage includes a fragment of a
1984 print, Mexican Night II (Engberg
and Banach 2003, no. 348), and a
fragment of a proof for a 1985 print,
Burning Sun (Engberg and Banach
2003, no. 357), printed on a white
ground. The sheet music is from the
score of an unidentified Stabat Mater
that Motherwell used in a number
of other collages (see the Comments
for c687).
