Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 403
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comments
An early version of this collage, with an
ochre ground, was reproduced in the
1990 Artcurial exhibition catalogue; but
installation photographs of the exhibition reveal that the final version of the
collage was exhibited.
c861
In Ochre and Yellow with
Sheet Music
1990
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on panel
19¼ x 15¼ in. (48.9 x 38.7 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: RM 90
artist’s studio number
c90-3568
present owner
Private collection, Minneapolis
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, Minneapolis, 2000
solo exhibitions
Artcurial Centre d’Art Plastique
Contemporain, Paris, 1990 (traveling),
Paris, color illus. p. 42.
references
Atlantic 1992, color illus. p. 39; Aspen
Music Festival and School 1997, cover
color illus.; Caws 2003, color illus. p. 18
(ill. 10, in studio).
comments
This collage includes a fragment from a
1990 print, The Poet’s Eye (Engberg and
Banach 2003, no. 493), and fragments
of sheet music from Beethoven’s String
Quartet no. 16 in F major, op. 135.
c861
c862
Scottish Ballad
1990
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on panel
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 90
artist’s studio number
c90-3576
present owner
Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums
collections. Purchased in 1996 with the
aid of a grant from the National Fund
for Acquisitions, the National Art
Collections Fund and the Friends of
Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Aberdeen
Art Gallery and Museums, Scotland,
1996
solo exhibitions
Artcurial Centre d’Art Plastique
Contemporain, Paris, 1990 (traveling),
Paris, color illus. p. 45.
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