Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 583
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Je t’aime No. VI
Intrusion
Jet No. 1
Jet No. 2
1973
Acrylic and crayon on cardboard
24 x 29 in. (61 x 73.7 cm)
1973
Acrylic and crayon on cardboard
30⅛ x 36¼ in. (76.5 x 92.1 cm)
1973
Acrylic on paper
30½ x 22½ in. (77.5 x 57.2 cm)
1973
Acrylic on paper
30¾ x 22½ in. (78.1 x 57.2 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left: RM 73
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left, incised: RM 73
Verso not seen [“signed, titled, and
August 73 on the backing,” per
Sotheby’s 1994]
artIst’s studIo number
p73-668
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: Motherwell
18 Nov 73
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: Motherwell
15 Nov 73
artIst’s studIo number
d73-672
artIst’s studIo number
d73-673
present owner
Unknown
present owner
Unknown
provenance
Unknown owner, ca. 1978
provenance
Private collection, 1979; unknown
owner
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Private collection, 1974; [Sotheby’s,
New York, November 2, 1994, lot 196,
illus. (not sold)]; private collection; private collection, 2000; Pascal de Sarthe
Fine Art, 2000; private collection
comments
This is the only numbered work from
Motherwell’s Je t’aime series that is
not painted on canvas. Regarding the
Je t’aime series in general, see the
Comments for Je t’aime No. II (p157).
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
references
Mattison et al. 2009, color illus. p. 135.
comments
Our reproduction comes from a blackand-white photograph of this work
taken around 1973 (studio inventory
photo no. ph 38-9).
p a i n tin gs on paper and paperbo ard
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