Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 672
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Automatic Drawing with Blue
Paint
Study for Hollow Men
1990
Acrylic and ink on Mylar
8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 90
artist’s studio number
d90-3615
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
solo exhibitions
Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, 1990.
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1990
Acrylic and graphite on paper
11 x 13½ in. (27.9 x 34.3 cm)
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smaller work by extending the bluepainted area of the ground to the lower
half of the composition, which had formerly been painted red.
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Study for Memory of Delos
1990
Acrylic, oil stick, and graphite on paper
13¾ x 11 in. (34.9 x 27.9 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 90
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 90
artist’s studio number
d90-3578
artist’s studio number
d90-3577; p90-3726
present owner
Dana and Rick Dirickson
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Dana and
Rick Dirickson, 2001
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 1999
comments
An early state of this work—in which
the ground was divided into sections
of blue, red, and yellow—served as a
study for the final version of a large
painting on canvas, Hollow Men’s Cave
(p1183), which Motherwell had begun
in 1986 and completed around 1990.
Later in 1990, Motherwell revised this
comments
This work was used as the model for a
1990 collage, Memory of Delos (c866),
and for a 1991 print, Delos (Engberg and
Banach 2003, no. 525). Both the title
and the imagery in these works refer to
the stone phalluses on the Stoivadeion
temple dedicated to Dionysos on the
Greek island of Delos.
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