Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 629
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Drunk with Turpentine
Alternative Title: {Drunk with Turpentine
(Study for Stephen’s Iron Crown)}
1979
Oil on paper
20 x 30 in. (50.8 x 76.2 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left: Motherwell Jan 79
artIst’s studIo number
p79-2656
present owner
Collection of the Modern Art Museum
of Fort Worth. Museum purchase, the
Friends of Art Endowment Fund
comments
This work, dated by the artist on the
recto to January 1979, is one of the earliest dated works from the Drunk with
Turpentine series, but Motherwell did
not give it a series number. (Another
work, Drunk with Turpentine No. 30, was
dated “29 Jan 79”; see w564.) In 1981
this work was used as the basis for a
large-scale painting, Stephen’s Iron
Crown (p1030); posthumously, it came
to be known as Drunk with Turpentine
Series (Study for Stephen’s Iron Crown).
Motherwell also based a 1982 print,
Stephen’s Iron Crown Etched, on this
image (Engberg and Banach 2003,
no. 292).
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Modern Art
Museum of Fort Worth, 1999
solo exhIbItIons
Visual Arts Museum, School of Visual
Arts, New York, 1983.
references
Caws 2003, color illus. p. 144 (ill. 93).
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