Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 405
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c865
Eclipse
1990
Acrylic, pasted papers, and crayon on
canvas mounted on panel
47½ x 25½ in. (120.7 x 64.8 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: RM 90
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references
Dayde 1990, color illus. p. 19.
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comments
This collage includes a fragment from
a 1990 print, The Poet’s Eye (Engberg
and Banach 2003, no. 493). Its title
refers to a total eclipse of the sun that
occurred on July 22, 1990.
1990
Acrylic, pasted papers, and charcoal on
canvas mounted on panel
47 x 35 in. (119.4 x 88.9 cm)
Memory of Delos
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 90
artist’s studio number
c90-3574
artist’s studio number
c90-3567
present owner
Private collection. Courtesy of Hall
Galleries, Dallas
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; James
Goodman Gallery, New York, 2001;
Solomon & Company Fine Art, Inc.,
2001; private collection; private
collection
solo exhibitions
Artcurial Centre d’Art Plastique
Contemporain, Paris, 1990 (traveling),
Paris, color illus. p. 44.
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles,
2000, cat. no. 27 (color illus. in
brochure).
comments
This collage and a 1991 print called
Delos (Engberg and Banach 2003,
no. 525) are both related to a 1990
painting on paper, Study for Memory of
Delos (w722). An unfinished late painting on canvas employs similar imagery
(see p1208).
Both the title and the imagery of
these works refer to the stone phalluses
on the Stoivadeion temple dedicated to
Dionysus on the Greek island of Delos.
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Leslie Feely
Fine Art, LLC, New York, 2001; private
collection, New Jersey, 2001; private
collection, 2006
solo exhibitions
Artcurial Centre d’Art Plastique
Contemporain, Paris, 1990 (traveling),
Paris, color illus. p. 47.
references
Caws 2003, color illus. p. 18 (ill. 10, in
studio, in early state).
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