Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 646
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Studio with Green
{ Untitled (Drunk with
Turpentine)}
James Joyce
1979
Acrylic and ink on paper
6⅝ x 10¾ in. (16.8 x 27.3 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left: RM
1979
Oil and charcoal on paper
23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
Recto, upper right: 1979
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: R.M 79
artIst’s studIo number
d79-3554
artIst’s studIo number
p79-2294
present owner
Private collection, Paris
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2005; private collection,
Paris, 2006
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
solo exhIbItIons
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles,
November 2002, cat. no. 25.
Group exhIbItIons
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles,
2003, cat. no. 17.
Alternative Title: Portrait of James Joyce
1979
Acrylic varnish and Conté crayon on
paper
11⅜ x 14 in. (28.9 x 35.6 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower right: RM
Verso (on backing board):
R Motherwell 1979
artIst’s studIo number
d79-2627
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
solo exhIbItIons
Provincetown Art Association and
Museum, Mass., 1983 (traveling).
Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery,
Cooper Union, New York, 1988, cat.
no. 27, as Portrait of James Joyce.
Knoedler & Company, New York, April
1991, cat. no. 13.
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paintings on p a p e r an d p a p e r b o a r d
Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona,
1996 (traveling), cat. no. 61, color illus.
p. 205.
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, 2001,
cat. no. 19, color illus. p. 49.
Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich, Conn.,
2008.
references
Ashton 1989, illus. p. 17, as Portrait of
James Joyce; Fundació Antoni Tàpies
exh. cat. 1996, illus. n.p. (in studio);
Caws 2003, color illus. p. 140 (ill. 89);
Ashton and Banach 2007, illus. p. 321,
as Portrait of James Joyce.
comments
The acrylic medium used in this work
is described in studio records as acrylic
varnish, which appears to have been
mixed with a small amount of pigment.
