Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 642
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group exhibitions
Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca,
Spain, 1986 (traveling), cat. no. 3, color
illus. n.p.
references
Drudi 1984, color illus. p. 67; Drudi
1988b, color illus. p. 67.
comments
This work served as the model for the
composition of the 1988 painting
Primal Image II (p1161).
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The War Machine
Untitled
[ Untitled (for Gabriella)]
1979
Oil on paper
30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
1979
Acrylic on paper
23¾ x 29¾ in. (60.3 x 75.6 cm)
1979
Acrylic on paper
5⅝ x 3¼ in. (14.3 x 8.3 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: Motherwell 79
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: Motherwell 1979
artist’s studio number
d79-2230
artist’s studio number
d79-3020
inscriptions
Recto, not visible in available image
[“signed UL corner RM,” per
studio card]
present owner
The Klüser Collection, Munich
present owner
Private collection
artist’s studio number
p79-2413
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2005
present owner
Unknown
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Klüser
Collection, Munich, 2003
solo exhibitions
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State
University, Kans., 1979.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo,
1983 (traveling), cat. no. 84, illus. p. 114;
not shown in Los Angeles and Seattle.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, 1984, cat. no. 144.
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles,
1997, cat. no. 11.
references
Morgan 1997, p. 115.
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paintings on p a p e r an d p a p e r b o a r d
solo exhibitions
Galerie Lelong, Paris, 2005, as Drunk
with Turpentine Series.
provenance
Unknown owner, ca. 1980
comments
The subtitle of this work refers to the
writer Gabriella Drudi, who was a
friend of Motherwell’s and who later
wrote a book about him (Drudi 1984).
Our reproduction comes from a
Polaroid photograph.
