Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 54
c47
solo exhibitions
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York,
April 1947, cat. no. 11, as Seaside
Collage (?).
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,
2004.
group exhibitions
Centro Cultural de Arte
Contemporáneo, Mexico City, 1996,
color illus. p. 435.
comments
This work is the earliest example of a
collage by Motherwell in which the
image is dominated by forms produced
by paper having been torn off the surface, rather than only pasted down. See
the Comments for The Tearingness of
Collaging (c69).
This collage may have been shown
as Seaside Collage at the Samuel M.
Kootz Gallery in April 1947. It
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collages
anticipates the torn imagery of collages
done during the 1950s that have titles
related to the sea, such as The End of
Dover Beach (c68), and the early state
of Souvenir de Californie, first known as
The French Coast (c61).
c48
c48
The Best Toys Are Made of
Paper
Alternative Title: The Best Toys Are Paper
(for Harold Rosenberg)
1948
Oil, pasted wood veneer, and pasted
papers on board
48 x 24 in. (121.9 x 61 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: Motherwell 48
artist’s studio number
c48-5160
present owner
Private collection, New York
provenance
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, 1948; Mr.
and Mrs. Burt Kleiner, Beverly Hills,
Calif., ca. 1948; private collection,
ca. 1975; Greenberg Gallery, Saint
Louis, ca. 1991; private collection,
New York, ca. 1995
solo exhibitions
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York,
May 1948, cat. no. 11.
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York,
October 1949.
Pasadena Art Museum, Calif.,
February 1962, cat. no. 11.
Washington University Gallery of Art,
Saint Louis, 1995, cat. no. 2.
group exhibitions
Detroit Institute of Arts, 1950.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.,
1952, cat. no. 25.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
1965, cat. no. 63, illus. p. 134.
