Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 409
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[ Untitled (In Blue with Brown
on Beige)]
[ The Blue Guitar (To Wallace
Stevens)]
1990
Acrylic, pasted papers, oil stick, and
graphite on canvas mounted on panel
20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
1990
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on panel
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: RM 90
inscriptions
Recto not signed, not dated
Verso (upside down) [circled ]: [Robert
Motherwell 1990]
artist’s studio number
c90-3620
artist’s studio number
c90-3617
present owner
Private collection
comments
This collage includes a fragment of a
1990 print, Seaside Studio (Engberg and
Banach 2003, no. 495). The title refers
to both the Wallace Stevens poem “The
Man with the Blue Guitar” (1937) and
Picasso’s Old Guitarist (see fig. 151 in
volume 1), which had inspired the
Stevens poem. Motherwell also gave
this title to another collage (c889).
This work served as the model for
a 1991 print, Untitled (Engberg and
Banach 2003, no. 530), one of the last
prints on which Motherwell worked.
present owner
Collection of Jancy and Gilbert Patrick,
North Carolina
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2005; private collection
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2005; Jancy and Gilbert
Patrick, North Carolina
solo exhibitions
William Shearburn Gallery, Saint
Louis, 2004, cat. no. 8.
comments
This collage served as the model for a
1991 print, Untitled (Engberg and
Banach 2003, no. 527), one of the last
prints on which Motherwell worked.
group exhibitions
Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch
College, New York, 1995, cat. no. 37,
illus. p. 16.
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c878
Untitled
1990
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on panel
36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: R. Motherwell 90
artist’s studio number
c90-3619
present owner
Mark Schnuck
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Mark
Schnuck, 2001
comments
This collage was the model for a 1991
print, Untitled (Engberg and Banach
2003, no. 528), one of the last prints on
which Motherwell worked.
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