Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 411
c881
c882
Creature
1973/1991
Acrylic, pasted paper, and graphite on
Upson board
23½ x 12 in. (59.7 x 30.5 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: RM 73
artist’s studio number
c73-1341
present owner
Collection Bernard Jacobson Gallery,
London, and Leonard Hutton
Galleries, New York
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Bernard
Jacobson Gallery, London, and
Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York,
2007
comments
An early version of this collage, begun
in 1973, had a label from Dry Humour
Port affixed to its center, relating it to
the Gauloises collages Motherwell did
during the 1970s. According to the studio card for this work, Motherwell
painted over the collage element and
gave the work its present title in 1991.
c883
c882
c883
M
1991
Acrylic and pasted papers on paper
22½ x 18½ in. (57.2 x 47 cm)
inscriptions
Recto not signed, not dated
and screen-print poster made for the
Mostly Mozart Festival held at Lincoln
Center, New York, during the summer
of 1991. (This composition was chosen
over a related composition, c884.) The
title of this work refers to the large,
black M-shaped form it contains, and
to Mozart.
artist’s studio number
c91-3641
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
references
Caws 2003, color illus. p. 18 (ill. 10,
in studio, in progress).
comments
This collage contains sheet music from
Mozart’s Rondo in A minor, for piano
(k. 511), and a fragment from the same
red paper used in M (c884) and in
Fantasia III (c885).
This collage was used as the
maquette for Mostly Mozart (Engberg
and Banach 2003, no. 526), a lithograph
co lla ges
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