Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 641
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oil and turpentine. This work was used
as the model for a 1981 print, Signs on
Copper (Engberg and Banach 2003,
no. 286). In the print, the image is
reversed.
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Drunk with Turpentine
Drunk with Turpentine
Drunk with Turpentine
1979
Oil on paper
23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
1979
Acrylic on paper
23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
1979
Oil on paper
23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: RM 7 Aug 79
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 15 July 79
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower left: RM 18 Aug 79
artIst’s studIo number
p79-2383
Recto, upper right: acr
artIst’s studIo number
d79-2384
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
comments
This work was the model for the initial
version of a large-scale painting that
Motherwell began in 1981 and continued to revise until 1988, which he
eventually titled Broken Open (p1142).
artIst’s studIo number
p79-2894
present owner
Private collection
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2008
comments
The “acr” inscribed on the recto of this
work was meant to signify that this was
one of the few works in this series that
were painted in acrylic rather than with
oil and turpentine.
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 1999
solo exhIbItIons
Visual Arts Museum, School of Visual
Arts, New York, 1983.
Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona,
1996 (traveling), cat. no. 56, color illus.
p. 195, as Drunk with Turpentine Series.
Marlborough Gallery, New York, 1999,
cat. no. 34, color illus. p. 27, as Drunk
with Turpentine Series.
p a i n tin gs on paper and paperbo ard
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