Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 353
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c737
Collaged Wall VI (for Arthur
Berger)
1986
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on Masonite
36 x 36 in. (91.4 x 91.4 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 86
ArtIst’s studIo number
c85-3236
present owner
Private collection
provenAnce
Isadore Familian, 1986; private collection, 2002
comments
This collage incorporates fragments of
a 1985 print, Perpetual Summer (Engberg
and Banach 2003, no. 361), along with
fragments of sheet music from Arthur
Berger’s Trio for Guitar, Violin, and
Piano (1972). Motherwell met Berger
(1912–2003) at Harvard in 1937;
they were in Paris together in 1938,
and remained lifelong friends. Like
Motherwell, Berger studied with David
W. Prall at Harvard, and it was Berger
who suggested that Motherwell move
to New York to study with Meyer
Schapiro.
Cyclops Cave
provenAnce
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Mr. and
Mrs. L. Frankfort, 2002
Alternative Title: Rondo (After Mozart)
1986
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on Masonite
36 x 36 in. (91.4 x 91.4 cm)
Group exhIbItIons
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown,
Mass., July 1986 (shown in early state),
as Rondo (After Mozart).
c738
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right, incised: RM
Verso (on top horizontal strainer):
AcrylIc + collAGe on Gesso pAnel
1986
Verso: R. Motherwell 1986
ArtIst’s studIo number
c86-3253
present owner
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. L.
Frankfort
references
Nickerson 1986, p. 3, as Rondo (After
Mozart), cover illus. (installation view,
in early state).
comments
An early version of this collage contained several pages of sheet music
from Mozart’s Rondo in D, for
piano (k. 485), and a fragment from
Motherwell’s 1985 print Wanderers
(Engberg and Banach 2003, no. 364).
The Long Point Gallery exhibited that
version in July 1986 under the title
co lla ges
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