Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 647
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Untitled
Mexican Prison
1979
Acrylic, ink, and graphite on paper
10 x 11 in. (25.4 x 27.9 cm), irreg.
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 79
artist’s studio number
d79-2860
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2004
solo exhibitions
Marisa del Re Gallery, New York,
February 1989, color illus. n.p.
Alternative Title: Mexican Bride
1979/1990
Oil on paper
35 x 18 in. (88.9 x 45.7 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 79
artist’s studio number
d79-2246; p79-2263
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
solo exhibitions
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown,
Mass., 1979, cat. no. 4 (shown in early
state), as Mexican Bride.
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Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, May
2005, cat. no. 18.
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references
Kutner 1992a, sec. C, p. 4; del Conde
1997, illus. n.p.
1979
Oil on monotype
28 x 22 in. (71.1 x 55.9 cm)
comments
Motherwell set the composition of this
work in 1979, but the central figure 4
form was then painted in pink; that
version of the work was exhibited at the
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, in
September 1979 under the title Mexican
Bride. In 1990 Motherwell repainted
the figure 4 with ochre and retitled the
work Mexican Prison. Regarding
Motherwell’s use of the figure 4, see the
Comments for The Figure 4 on an Elegy
(w104).
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 8 Nov 79
[ Untitled (Black, Red)]
artist’s studio number
d79-2655
present owner
Collection of John H. Walter and Joy
Thornton-Walter
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; John H.
Walter and Joy Thornton-Walter, 2006
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City,
1991 (traveling), cat. no. 22, color illus.
p. 63.
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles,
1997, cat. no. 5.
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen,
Germany, 2004, color illus. p. 114.
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