Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 46
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present owner
Yale University Art Gallery. Gift of
Richard Brown Baker, B.A. 1935
Wellesley College, Mass., 1963.
provenance
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, 1946;
Richard Brown Baker, 1955; Yale
University Art Gallery, New Haven,
Conn., 1995
Oakland University, Rochester,
Mich., 1966.
group exhibitions
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York,
December 1946, cat. no. 17, as Homage
to John Cage.
Yale University Art Gallery, New
Haven, Conn., 1956, cat. no. 173,
illus. n.p.
Alan Gallery, New York, 1957, cat.
no. 14.
Woman’s College of the University of
North Carolina, Greensboro, 1957
(traveling), cat. no. 13.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
1965, cat. no. 61, illus. p. 132.
Library and Teaching Galleries,
University of South Florida, Tampa,
1967.
Olympic Games Arts Festival, Mexico
City, 1968.
San Francisco Museum of Art, 1973
(traveling), cat. no. 45.
Yale University Art Gallery, New
Haven, Conn., 1975, illus. p. 25 (fig. 2).
Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
September 1976 (traveling), cat.
no. [76].
Squibb Gallery, Princeton, N.J., 1979,
cat. no. 32.
Museum of Art, Rhode Island
School of Design, Providence, 1959,
cat. no. 32, illus. n.p. (fig. 5).
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School
of Design, Providence, 1985 (traveling),
cat. no. 99, illus. p. 50.
Newark Museum, N.J., 1960.
references
Kozloff 1965a, illus. p. 34; Buettner
1973, p. 336, as Homage to John Cage;
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1961,
cat. no. 44, illus. n.p.
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collages
Buettner 1981, p. 110; Mattison 1985b,
pp. 51, 103, 173, 175–76, illus. n.p.
(fig. 152), referred to in text and in
illus. as In Blue with China Ink;
Mattison 1987, pp. 36, 81, 145, 146–47,
as In Blue with China Ink, illus. p. 154
(fig. 60, upside down); Westgeest 1996,
pp. 61, 254, illus. p. 60 (ill. 35); Gilbert
1998, pp. 264, 266, 270, 549; Haxall
2009, pp. 8, 62, 69, 70, 76, 81, 83, 84,
86, 87, 90–93, 118, 122, 125, 126–27,
128, 132, 135, 136.
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comments
This collage was made in East Hampton
in July 1946. Motherwell had met the
composer John Cage in 1942. In the fall
of 1946, Motherwell attended rehearsals for a performance of Cage’s work at
Carnegie Hall and invited Cage to be the
music editor of the journal Possibilities.
artist’s studio number
c46-5055
The Pink Mirror
Alternative Title: Composition
1946
Oil and pasted papers on paperboard
39 x 29½ in. (99.1 x 74.9 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right, incised and
inscribed: Motherwell 46
Verso: Robert Motherwell October
1946
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, 1946;
Vera G. and Albert A. List; Barbara and
Donald Jonas, 1977; [Christie’s, New
York, May 11, 2005, lot 21, illus.];
private collection, 2005
group exhibitions
Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York,
1977, cat. no. 119, color illus. n.p.
