Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 377
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The Red and Black No. 38
1987–88
Oil-based etching ink, pasted papers,
and aquatint on paper
31¾ x 25 in. (80.6 x 63.5 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: Motherwell 87
comments
This collage includes fragments of
the prints St. Michael III, 1979;
Wanderers, 1985; and from the 1986
Alphabet Series (Engberg and Banach
2003, nos. 237, 364, and 375).
Motherwell added the painted black
brush marks in 1988.
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The Red and Black No. 39
1987–88
Oil-based etching ink, pasted papers,
and aquatint on paper
32 x 25 in. (81.3 x 63.5 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: Motherwell 87
ArtIst’s studIo number
c87-3417
ArtIst’s studIo number
c87-3418
present owner
Private collection
present owner
Unknown
provenAnce
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2007
provenAnce
Base Gallery, Tokyo, 1990; unknown
owner
solo exhIbItIons
Rosenbaum Contemporary, Gallery
Center, Boca Raton, Fla., 2004.
solo exhIbItIons
Waddington Graphics, London, 1989.
Galleria d’Arte il Gabbiano, Rome,
2006, cat. no. 5, color illus. p. 17.
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comments
This collage includes fragments of
the prints The Razor’s Edge, 1985;
Wanderers, 1985; and from the 1986
Alphabet Series (Engberg and Banach
2003, nos. 362, 364, and 375).
Motherwell added the painted black
brush marks in 1988.
references
Pleynet 1989b, p. 195, color illus.
p. 204.
references
Pleynet 1989b, p. 195, color illus.
p. 203; Turner 2006, p. 156, color illus.
p. 156.
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