Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 368
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The Red and Black No. 10
The Red and Black No. 11
The Red and Black No. 12
The Red and Black No. 13
1987–88
Oil-based etching ink, pasted papers,
and aquatint on paper
31½ x 25 in. (80 x 63.5 cm)
1987/1988
Oil-based etching ink, pasted papers,
and aquatint on paper
32 x 25 in. (81.3 x 63.5 cm)
1987–88
Oil-based etching ink, pasted papers,
and aquatint on paper
32 x 25 in. (81.3 x 63.5 cm)
1987
Pasted papers and aquatint on paper
32 x 25 in. (81.3 x 63.5 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: Motherwell 87
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: Motherwell 87
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: Motherwell 87
ArtIst’s studIo number
c87-3390
ArtIst’s studIo number
c87-3391
ArtIst’s studIo number
c87-3392
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
present owner
Unknown
present owner
Unknown
provenAnce
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
provenAnce
Base Gallery, Tokyo, 1990; unknown
owner
provenAnce
Base Gallery, Tokyo, 1990; unknown
owner
solo exhIbItIons
Knoedler & Company, New York, April
1988, cat. no. 7 (shown in early state).
solo exhIbItIons
Waddington Graphics, London, 1989.
references
Ashton 1989, illus. p. 26; Pleynet
1989b, color illus. p. 196, erroneously
as The Red and Black No. 4.
comments
This collage includes fragments of
the prints St. Michael III, 1979; Yellow
Flight, 1986; and from the 1986 Alphabet
Series (Engberg and Banach 2003,
nos. 237, 367, and 375). Motherwell
added the painted black brush marks
in 1988.
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collages
comments
This collage includes fragments of three
prints: At the Edge, 1984; Flesh Automatism,
1984; and Black Open, 1985 (Engberg and
Banach 2003, nos. 345, 346, and 358). It
was shown in an early state at Knoedler
& Company in April 1988. Motherwell
added the painted black brush marks
when it was returned to him that May.
references
Pleynet 1989b, color illus. p. 198.
comments
This collage includes a print fragment
from the 1986 Alphabet Series (Engberg
and Banach 2003, no. 375), and two
torn fragments of sheet music from
Mozart’s Don Giovanni (k. 527).
Motherwell added the painted black
brush marks in 1988.
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: Motherwell 87
ArtIst’s studIo number
c87-3393
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenAnce
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
references
Pleynet 1989b, color illus. p. 199.
comments
This collage includes fragments of the
following prints: Glass Garden, 1984;
Wanderers, 1985; and Yellow Flight, 1986
(Engberg and Banach 2003, nos. 342,
364, and 367).
