Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 413
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exhibited at Knoedler & Company during the summer of 1989. After the work
was returned to Motherwell in April
1991, he revised the ground, painting
blue over what had been the yellow
ground and adding yellow ochres to the
area near the center.
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Summertime with Black
Clouds
The Blue Guitar
1991
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas
mounted on panel
20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 91
artist’s studio number
c91-3648
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2003
1990–91
Acrylic, pasted papers, and crayon on
canvas mounted on panel
47 x 24 in. (119.4 x 61 cm)
inscriptions
Recto not signed, not dated
artist’s studio number
c90-3573
present owner
Jeannie Motherwell
provenance
Jeannie Motherwell, 1992; [Robert W.
Skinner, Boston, November 21, 2003,
lot 593, illus. (not sold)]
solo exhibitions
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown,
Mass., August 1991.
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comments
This collage includes most of a page of
a manuscript of the conductor’s score
for Purgatory, an unpublished work for
large orchestra written around 1987
by Chambliss Giobbi, the son of
Motherwell’s friend, the artist Edward
Giobbi. Chambliss Giobbi recalls having given Motherwell this manuscript
in 1987 or 1988. According to the elder
Giobbi, this was the last collage completed by Motherwell (see Forman
1991d).
The title, which refers to Wallace
Stevens’s poem “The Man with the
Blue Guitar” (1937) and to Picasso’s
Old Guitarist (see fig. 151 in volume 1),
was also used for The Blue Guitar (To
Wallace Stevens) (c877).
references
Forman 1991d, sec. C, p. 1, illus. sec. C,
p. 1.
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