Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 670
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Study for Mask (for Ingmar
Bergman)
1988
Acrylic on paper
29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 88
comments
Motherwell based this work—and also
his 1989 lithograph Mask (for Ingmar
Bergman) (Engberg and Banach 2003,
no. 474)—on his 1984 collage Yellow
Form with Music (c710). The title refers
to the Swedish filmmaker Ingmar
Bergman (1918–2007).
present owner
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
The Eunice and Hal David Collection
of 19th- and 20th-Century Works on
Paper. Partial and promised gift to
the UCLA Grunwald Center for the
Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum, Los
Angeles
provenance
Kenneth E. Tyler, ca. 1988; Eunice and
Hal David, 1998; Hammer Museum,
Los Angeles, 2003
group exhibitions
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and
Cultural Center, Los Angeles, 2003
(traveling), cat. no. 38, color illus.
p. 173.
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Hollow Men’s Cave
Study for The Grand
Inquisitor
Ca. 1988
Acrylic and china marker on paper
23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
inscriptions
Recto not signed, not dated
Alternative Title: Study for Catalonia II
1988/1989
Acrylic and graphite on paper
12 x 28¾ in. (30.5 x 73 cm)
artist’s studio number
d91-3780
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 88
present owner
Private collection
artist’s studio number
d88-3491
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2000
present owner
Private collection, England
solo exhibitions
Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa
Monica, Calif., 2000.
comments
Motherwell modeled this work on an
early state of a larger painting on
canvas, also called Hollow Men’s Cave
(p1183). He used it as the basis for a
print of the same title (Engberg and
Banach 2003, no. 523), which was executed at Tyler Graphics Ltd. in 1988
but not published until 1991.
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, England, 2007
solo exhibitions
Knoedler & Company, New York, April
1989, cat. no. 12 (shown in early state),
as Study for “Catalonia” II.
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City,
1991 (traveling).
Galerie Lelong, Paris, 2005, as Study for
Catalonia #II.
