Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 628
w581
w581
Drunk with Turpentine No. 68
1979
Acrylic on paper
23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower left: RM 21 July 79
comments
The “acr” inscribed on the recto of this
work was meant to signify that this was
one of the very few works in this series
that was painted in acrylic rather than
with oil and turpentine.
Our reproduction comes from an
early color slide of this work.
Recto, lower left: acr
artIst’s studIo number
p79-2381
present owner
Unknown
w582
w582
Drunk with Turpentine No. 70
1979
Oil on paper
23⅛ x 29 in. (58.7 x 73.7 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower left: RM Aug 79
artIst’s studIo number
p79-3092
present owner
The Museum of Modern Art, New
York. Gift of the artist
provenance
Unknown owner, ca. 1983
provenance
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
1987
Group exhIbItIons
Fondation Nationale des Arts
Graphiques et Plastiques, Paris, 1983
(traveling), color illus. p. 70, erroneously as Drunk with Turpentine II 68.
solo exhIbItIons
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
1987.
references
Craven 1985, p. 100, illus. p. 99, erroneously as Drunk on Erasure Fluid.
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