Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 366
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The Red and Black No. 4
1987/1988
Oil-based etching ink, pasted papers,
and aquatint on paper
31½ x 25 in. (80 x 63.5 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: Motherwell 87
ArtIst’s studIo number
c87-3384
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenAnce
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
solo exhIbItIons
Knoedler & Company, New York,
April 1988 (not in catalogue); shown
in early state.
Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea,
Milan, 1989, cat. no. 25, illus. p. 24,
color illus. p. 49 (erroneously as The
Red and the Black No. 54).
references
Ashton 1989, illus. p. 24; Michaud
1989, illus. p. 52, erroneously as The red
354
collages
and the black 54; Pleynet 1989b, color
illus. p. 207, erroneously as The Red and
Black No. 54.
comments
This collage contains a fragment of a
1984 aquatint, At the Edge (Engberg
and Banach 2003, no. 345). It was
shown in an early state at Knoedler &
Company in April 1988. Motherwell
added the painted black brush marks
after the work was returned to him
that May.
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The Red and Black No. 5
The Red and Black No. 6
1987–88
Oil-based etching ink, pasted papers,
and aquatint on paper
31½ x 25 in. (80 x 63.5 cm)
1987–88
Oil-based etching ink, pasted papers,
and aquatint on paper
31½ x 25 in. (80 x 63.5 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: Motherwell 87
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: Motherwell 87
ArtIst’s studIo number
c87-3385
ArtIst’s studIo number
c87-3386
present owner
Peter Farrell
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenAnce
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Peter
Farrell, 2005
provenAnce
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
solo exhIbItIons
Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia,
2005.
comments
This collage includes fragments of the
following prints: At the Edge, 1984;
Perpetual Summer, 1985; and Wanderers,
1985 (Engberg and Banach 2003, nos.
345, 361, and 364). Motherwell added
the painted black brush marks in 1988.
comments
This collage includes fragments of
the prints Flesh Automatism, 1984;
Wanderers, 1985; and of prints from the
1986 Alphabet Series (Engberg and
Banach 2003, nos. 346, 364, and 375).
Motherwell added the painted black
brush marks in 1988.
