Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 400
c852
c852
L’Enfant du Paradis
1989
Acrylic, pasted papers, and oil pastel on
canvas mounted on Masonite
36 x 23¾ in. (91.4 x 60.3 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right, incised: RM
artist’s studio number
c89-3482
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
comments
An early version of this collage,
composed on a red ground, was consigned to Knoedler & Company from
February to June 1989. After it was
returned to Motherwell, he repainted
the ground a tan color and made additions in blue and white oil pastel. It was
consigned again to Knoedler in October
of that same year in its final form.
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collages
The title may refer to Marcel
Carné’s Les Enfants du paradis (Children
of Paradise), which was filmed during
the Nazi occupation of France and first
shown in public in 1945.
c853
c854
c853
c854
Untitled (Red with Yellow
Oval)
In Rose and Ochre with Red
Circle
1989
Acrylic, pasted papers, and charcoal on
canvas board
40 x 29½ in. (101.6 x 74.9 cm)
1989
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on board
35 x 23 in. (88.9 x 58.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower left: R. Motherwell 89
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 89
artist’s studio number
c89-3543
artist’s studio number
c89-3545
present owner
Fayez Sarofim Collection
present owner
Unknown
provenance
Meredith Long & Company, 1990;
Fayez Sarofim, 1996
provenance
Private collection, 1990; unknown
owner
comments
This collage includes fragments from
a 1989 print, Orange Lyric (Engberg
and Banach 2003, no. 477), and from
the aquatint that was used as the paper
ground in the Red and Black series of
collages (see the Comments for c760).
comments
This collage contains fragments from
the prints Riverrun, 1988, and Three
Forms II, 1989 (Engberg and Banach
2003, nos. 468 and 478).
