Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 61
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Walden School, New York, 1960.
Untitled
Stars and Moons
1951
Gouache, pasted papers, and ink on
paperboard
39½ x 29½ in. (100.3 x 74.9 cm)
1951
Gouache, pasted paperboard, pasted
papers, and ink on paperboard
28¾ x 22¼ in. (73 x 56.5 cm)
Café Galerie, New York, 1968,
cat. no. 38, as Untitled.
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 51
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: Robert
Motherwell 51
artist’s studio number
c51-1459
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2007
group exhibitions
Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, 2005,
color illus. p. 178.
comments
The large form at the upper center of
this collage recalls the image of the
burning bush in several of Motherwell’s
studies for the large 1951 mural painting Wall of the Temple (see the Comments
for p114; see also p115 and p117).
artist’s studio number
c51-519
New York Studio School, 2003,
cat. no. 30, as Untitled.
references
B[reuning] 1951, p. 22.
comments
This collage was sold shortly after it
was created. Motherwell bought it at
auction in 1970.
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Vera G. and Albert A. List, ca. 1951;
private collection, New York, 1969;
[Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York,
November 18, 1970, lot 1, illus.];
Robert Motherwell, 1970; Dedalus
Foundation, 1991
solo exhibitions
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich,
May 2005, cat. no. 21, as Untitled.
group exhibitions
Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York,
May 1951.
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