Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 379
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in an early state at Knoedler &
Company in April 1988. Motherwell
added the painted black brush marks
after it was returned to him that May.
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The Red and Black No. 44
The Red and Black No. 45
1987–88
Oil-based etching ink, pasted papers,
and aquatint on paper
31¾ x 25 in. (80.6 x 63.5 cm)
1987/1988
Oil-based etching ink, pasted papers,
and aquatint on paper
32⅞ x 24¾ in. (83.5 x 62.9 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: Motherwell 87
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: Motherwell 87
ArtIst’s studIo number
c87-3423
ArtIst’s studIo number
c87-3424
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
present owner
Private collection
provenAnce
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
provenAnce
Melvin Nessel, 1989; Norton Museum
of Art, 1995; private collection, 2006
solo exhIbItIons
Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte,
N.C., 2006, cat. no. 12.
Group exhIbItIons
Provincetown Art Association and
Museum, Mass., 1989 (traveling).
comments
This collage includes fragments of the
prints La Casa de la Mancha, 1984, and
Wanderers, 1985 (Engberg and Banach
2003, nos. 349 and 364). Motherwell
added the painted black brush marks
in 1988.
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early state at Knoedler & Company
in April 1988. Motherwell added the
painted black brush marks after it was
returned to him that May.
solo exhIbItIons
Knoedler & Company, New York, April
1988, cat. no. 9 (shown in early state).
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 work was shown in an
co lla ges
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