Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 404
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group exhibitions
Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum,
Japan, 2000 (traveling), cat. no. 80,
color illus. pp. 206–7.
references
Foll 1990, p. 44, color illus. p. 44; Pinte
1990, illus. p. 49.
comments
This collage incorporates a piece of
sheet music from “The Old Fisherman,”
a song by Francis George Scott, which
was torn from a book sent to Motherwell
by James Coxson of Edinburgh in 1990.
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In Watery Blue with Tan and
Black
The Disappearance of Goya’s
Dog
1990
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on panel
48 x 26 in. (121.9 x 66 cm)
Alternative Title: Goya’s Dog No. 2
1990
Acrylic and pasted paper on canvas
mounted on panel
8 x 24 in. (20.3 x 61 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower center (on collage
element): RM 90
Verso: R. Motherwell
present owner
Dr. Michael Stewart
artist’s studio number
p90-3587
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Michael
Stewart, 2003
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
references
Caws 2003, color illus. p. 18 (ill. 10, in
studio).
collages
inscriptions
Recto not signed, not dated
artist’s studio number
c90-3575
solo exhibitions
Artcurial Centre d’Art Plastique
Contemporain, Paris, 1990 (traveling),
Paris, color illus. p. 48.
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Verso [crossed out]: [“goya’s dog” #2]
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
solo exhibitions
Knoedler & Company, New York, April
1991, cat. no. 12.
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City,
1991 (traveling), cat. no. 36, color illus.
p. 83.
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references
Noland 1991, p. 14; Caws 1996b, illus.
p. 67, color illus. n.p.; Fundació Antoni
Tàpies exh. cat. 1996, illus. n.p. (in
studio); Caws 2003, p. 183, illus. p. 183
(ill. 129).
comments
This collage may have been begun as
early as 1975. The title written on the
verso, now crossed out, indicates that
Motherwell probably painted over an
earlier composition that was related to
a 1975 work of similar dimensions,
Goya’s Dog (Sketch) (p861). The final
title of this work would then be a pun
on the physical disappearance of the
earlier Goya’s Dog through its repainting. (There is, however, no visual
record of a previous version.)
