Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 582
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The Iron Crown
1973
Acrylic and charcoal on cardboard
25¾ x 29¼ in. (65.4 x 74.3 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 73
Recto, upper right [painted over]:
[RM [illegible] July 73]
artist’s studio number
p63-637-bi52; p73-637
present owner
Collection of the Modern Art Museum
of Fort Worth. Museum purchase and
gift of the artist
provenance
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,
1985
570
solo exhibitions
Fort Worth Art Museum, September
1985, cat. no. 2, color frontispiece, color
illus. p. 9.
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City,
1991 (traveling), cat. no. 12, color illus.
p. 51.
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,
1993.
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,
1994.
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,
2004.
group exhibitions
Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum,
San Antonio, Tex., 1986, cat. no. 4,
illus. p. 42.
paintings on pa p e r an d p a p e r b o a r d
references
Fort Worth Art Museum Calendar
1985b, p. 2; Kutner 1985b, sec. A, p. 31,
color illus. sec. A, p. 29; Sewell 1985,
p. 21; Tyson 1992, illus. sec. D, p. 1;
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Calendar 1993, color illus. p. 20; Caws
2003, color illus. p. 145 (ill. 95, erroneously as The Iron Crown [Greenwich]).
comments
The title of this work is taken from a
passage in James Joyce’s Ulysses, in
which a procession is described that
includes “the high constable carrying
the sword of state, saint Stephen’s
iron crown, the chalice and bible.” This
passage was underlined by Motherwell
in his copy of the 1968 Bodley Head
edition (p. 603). See also Stephen’s Iron
Crown (p1030).
