Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 349
c728
comments
This work includes a fragment from a
1984 print, Mexican Night II (Engberg
and Banach 2003, no. 348). An early
version, begun in 1985, had areas of raw
canvas showing in the ground, mostly
in the lower parts. That version was
consigned to Knoedler & Company
from April 1985 to June 1989. After the
work was returned to Motherwell, he
extended the blue-gray paint into those
areas of the ground.
c728
White Music I
1985
Acrylic and pasted papers on Masonite
24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: RM 85
artist’s studio number
c85-3134
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Kenneth Carmel, 1986; private collection, 2008
solo exhibitions
Knoedler & Company, New York, April
1986, cat. no. 13.
group exhibitions
Knoedler & Company, New York,
September 1991, cat. no. 6.
comments
This collage includes sheet music from
the same unidentified Stabat Mater as
the one in White Music, 1983 (c687),
c729–c732, and several other collages,
and a fragment from a 1985 print, The
Persian II (Engberg and Banach 2003,
no. 353).
c729
White Music II
1985
Acrylic and pasted papers on Masonite
24 x 20 in. (61 x 50.8 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: RM 85
artist’s studio number
c85-3136
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
solo exhibitions
Knoedler & Company, New York, April
1986, cat. no. 16.
Montclair Art Museum, N.J.,
November 1989.
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