Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 384
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Goya’s Dog II
Alternative Titles: Collaged Wall IV;
Goya’s Dog
1985/1988
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on Masonite
36 x 36 in. (91.4 x 91.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left, incised: RM 85
Verso not seen [“R. Motherwell Dec,
1985,” per studio card]
artist’s studio number
c85-3222
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Private collection, 1989; private
collection
solo exhibitions
Knoedler & Company, New York, April
1986, cat. no. 8 (shown in early state),
as Collaged Wall, IV.
Knoedler & Company, New York, April
1989, cat. no. 5, cover color illus.
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collages
references
Mathew 1986, p. 3, as Collaged Wall IV;
Ashton 1989, illus. p. 21, as Goya’s Dog;
Pleynet 1989b, color illus. p. 182 (in
studio); Flam 1991, color illus. n.p.
(pl. 138, as Goya’s Dog); Museo Rufino
Tamayo exh. cat. 1991, illus. frontispiece (in studio); del Conde 1997, illus.
n.p. (in studio).
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comments
This collage includes a fragment of a
1984 print, At the Edge (Engberg and
Banach 2003, no. 345). It was begun
in 1985 and exhibited at Knoedler &
Company in April 1986 with the title
Collaged Wall IV. After it was returned
to Motherwell in 1988, he added the
yellow painted areas and blue lines, and
extended the blacks to the lower right
half of the ground. The collage was
retitled Goya’s Dog when it was consigned to Knoedler again at the beginning of April 1989, but the title was
changed to Goya’s Dog II by the time it
was exhibited later that month.
A 1975 painting was titled Goya’s
Dog (Sketch) (p861).
Verso not seen [“R. Motherwell on
verso stretcher bar,” per studio card]
The Irish Book
1988
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on board
20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 89
artist’s studio number
c88-3446; c89-3475
present owner
Private collection. Courtesy Locks
Gallery, Philadelphia
provenance
Private collection, 1989
solo exhibitions
Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery,
Cooper Union, New York, 1988, cat.
no. 45.
Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia,
1989, color illus. n.p.
Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, 1992, color
illus. p. 31.
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comments
This collage includes a fragment of a
1985 print, Burning Sun (Engberg and
Banach 2003, no. 357). Although
Motherwell signed and dated the work
1989, a studio slide taken in December
1988 shows the work already in its
final form.
