Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 542
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Untitled
Untitled
Untitled
Juilliard School Poster Sketch
1969
Acrylic and graphite on paper
9 x 12 in. (22.9 x 30.5 cm)
Ca. 1969
Acrylic and graphite on paper
9 x 11⅞ in. (22.9 x 30.2 cm)
Ca. 1969
Acrylic and graphite on paper
8⅞ x 11¾ in. (22.5 x 29.8 cm)
Ca. 1969
Acrylic and graphite on canvas paper
11½ x 9 in. (29.2 x 22.9 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower left: RM 69
inscriptions
Recto not signed, not dated
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM
inscriptions
Recto, lower left: Robert Motherwell
present owner
Audrey and David Mirvish, Toronto
artist’s studio number
p-3829
present owner
Private collection
artist’s studio number
d**-2798
provenance
Audrey and David Mirvish, Toronto
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Private collection
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
comments
The composition of this small painting
on paper is similar to that of a contemporaneous painting on canvas, Open
No. 90 (p480).
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
solo exhibitions
Knoedler & Company, New York,
February 1993, cat. no. 9.
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
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comments
The date assigned to this work is based
on the similarity of its compositional
format and size to a 1969 painting on
paper, Untitled (w306).
paintings on pa p e r an d p a p e r b o a r d
comments
The date assigned to this work is based
on the similarity of its compositional
format and size to a 1969 painting on
paper, Untitled (w306).
comments
Motherwell did this small painting on
paper as a sketch for a poster commissioned for the dedication ceremony
for the new location of the Juilliard
School on October 26, 1969. But he
eventually chose to base the final
screen-printed design, Juilliard School
(Engberg and Banach 2003, no. 64), on
a collage that had been created in 1969
(see the Comments for c265).
The inscription “juilliard school”
and the sketched-in musical notes on
the recto are in Motherwell’s hand.
