Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 36
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c22
Collage No. 2
1945
Tempera, pasted wood veneer, pasted
papers, and ink on paperboard
21⅞ x 14⅞ in. (55.6 x 37.8 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: 45 Robert
Motherwell 45
(traveling), cat. no. 7; not shown in
Stanford.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
November 1972 (traveling), cat. no. 6,
illus. p. 54.
Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1976
(traveling), cat. no. 3, illus. p. 98.
Recto, lower right (upside down) [partially erased]: [Robert Motherwell 45]
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo,
1983 (traveling), cat. no. 7, illus.
p. 58; shown in Buffalo and San
Francisco only.
artist’s studio number
c45-1534
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, 1984, cat. no. 7.
present owner
Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Gift of the Dedalus Foundation and
museum purchase
Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea,
Milan, 1989, cat. no. 3, color illus.
p. 32.
provenance
Mr. and Mrs. H. Gates Lloyd, before
1963; Robert Motherwell, ca. 1969;
Dedalus Foundation, 1991;
Smithsonian American Art Museum,
Washington, D.C., 1995
solo exhibitions
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, 1969
24
collages
Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona,
1996 (traveling), cat. no. 4, color illus.
p. 79.
group exhibitions
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1963,
cat. no. 283.
Whitney Museum of American Art,
Downtown Branch, New York,
April 1975.
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Musée National d’Art Moderne,
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1977.
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art,
Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., 1978
(traveling), Tokyo, illus. n.p.; shown in
Tokyo only.
Newport Harbor Art Museum,
Newport Beach, Calif., 1986 (traveling),
cat. no. 81, color illus. p. 135.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, March 1988, cat. no. 92.
Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum,
Florida International University,
Miami, 2008 (traveling), color illus.
p. 12 (detail), color illus. p. 176.
references
Mattison 1985b, illus. n.p. (fig. 136);
Appella 1989, illus. p. 3; Zanetti 1990,
color illus. p. 90 (fig. 3); Anfam 1997,
p. 505, illus. p. 505 (fig. 72).
comments
This collage contains wood veneer and
a piece of one of the German wrapping
papers that Motherwell had been using
in his collages since 1943. An erased
inscription under the signature reads
“Robert Motherwell 45,” but upside
down, indicating that at some point in
the process of creating this work
Motherwell rotated it 180 degrees.
The numbers in the titles of this
work and of Collage No. 1 (c21) are
related to the numbering system of the
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery; these were
the first two Motherwell works assigned
Kootz Gallery inventory numbers
(Kootz nos. 501 and 502 respectively).
