Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 373
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references
Pleynet 1989b, p. 195, color illus.
p. 200.
comments
This collage includes fragments of the
prints At the Edge, 1984, and Wanderers,
1985 (Engberg and Banach 2003, nos.
345 and 364). A fragment of a 1979
print, St. Michael III (Engberg and
Banach 2003, no. 237), was visible in an
early state of this work but was painted
over with black etching ink in 1988.
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The Red and Black No. 26
The Red and Black No. 27
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
31½ x 25 in. (80 x 63.5 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: Motherwell 87
ArtIst’s studIo number
c87-3405
present owner
Private collection
provenAnce
Private collection, 1989
comments
This collage includes fragments of
the prints St. Michael III, 1979, and
Wanderers, 1985 (Engberg and Banach
2003, nos. 237 and 364). The sheet
music is from Mozart’s Don Giovanni
(k. 527). Motherwell added the painted
black brush marks in 1988.
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InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: Motherwell 87
ArtIst’s studIo number
c87-3406
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenAnce
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
solo exhIbItIons
Knoedler & Company, New York, April
1988, cat. no. 12.
Waddington Graphics, London, 1989.
comments
This collage includes fragments of the
prints America–La France Variations
VIII, 1984, and Wanderers, 1985
(Engberg and Banach 2003, nos. 336
and 364). The sheet music is from
Mozart’s Don Giovanni (k. 527).
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