Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 412
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M
Fantasia III
{ Untitled (with Stamps)}
In Yellow with Calligraphy
1991
Acrylic and pasted papers on paper
22½ x 18½ in. (57.2 x 47 cm)
1991
Acrylic and pasted papers on paper
22½ x 17¾ in. (57.2 x 45.1 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto not signed, not dated
InscrIptIons
Recto not signed, not dated
1991
Pasted papers on canvas mounted on
panel
20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
1989/1991
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on Masonite
20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
ArtIst’s studIo number
c91-3640
ArtIst’s studIo number
c91-3639
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 91
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower left: Motherwell 89
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
ArtIst’s studIo number
c91-3647
ArtIst’s studIo number
c89-3513
provenAnce
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
provenAnce
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
present owner
Margot Stein
present owner
Private collection
comments
This collage incorporates sheet music
from Mozart’s Rondo in D, for piano
(k. 485), and a fragment from the same
red paper seen in Fantasia III (c885). It
was one of two maquettes Motherwell
made for a poster to be used by the
Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln
Center, New York, during the summer
of 1991. In the end, Motherwell chose
the other composition (c883) as the
maquette for the poster. The title of the
work refers the large, black M-shaped
form it contains, and to Mozart.
comments
This collage incorporates fragments of
sheet music from Mozart’s Rondo in D,
for piano (k. 485; in the upper part)
and from the Prelude from Mozart’s
Prelude (Fantasia) and Fugue in C, for
piano (k. 394/383a; in the lower part).
The red collage element is torn from
the same sheet of paper as the red form
in the 1991 collages titled M (c883 and
c884), which very likely were conceived
as Fantasia I and II.
provenAnce
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Eric
Cohler, 2007; [Doyle, New York, May
19, 2009, lot 161, illus.]; Margot Stein,
2009
provenAnce
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2003
400
collages
solo exhIbItIons
Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte,
N.C., 2006, cat. no. 24.
comments
This collage includes postage stamps
from Spain and a wrapping envelope
stamped by the Spanish national postal
service.
Group exhIbItIons
Knoedler & Company, New York, [June]
1989, cat. no. 14 (shown in early state).
comments
This collage incorporates parts of a
1984 aquatint, Untitled (State I)
(Engberg and Banach 2003, no. 325).
The composition of the collage was
set in 1989. That early version, which
contained a central blue area with
yellow paint around the edges, was
