Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 74
Galleria Odyssia, Rome, 1962, cat.
no. 16 (shown in early state).
Art Museum, Princeton University,
N.J., 1973, cat. no. 46, illus. p. 27.
c76
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco,
1973, cat. no. 21.
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City,
1975, cat. no. 14, illus. n.p., as Fockink.
Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1976
(traveling), cat. no. 21, illus. p. 102.
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de
Paris, 1977, erroneously as Focking
No. 1.
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington,
1999.
group exhibitions
Museum Fridericianum, Kassel,
Germany, 1959, cat. no. 4 (shown in
early state).
J. L. Hudson Gallery, Detroit, 1966.
William Zierler, New York, 1974, cat.
no. 23, illus. n.p.
Berlinische Galerie, Museum für
Moderne Kunst, Photographie, und
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collages
Architektur, Berlin, 1988, cat. no. 16/33,
illus. p. 448.
c76
Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York,
2002.
1957–58
Oil and pasted papers on paperboard
mounted on board
30 x 21 in. (76.2 x 53.3 cm)
comments
The title of this collage refers to the
label from the Dutch brand of gin
Fockink at the center; the label just
below it, which overlaps a paper
painter’s palette, is from Sökelands
Pumpernickel. The size of this collage
was originally 24 x 16 inches, and it
was mounted on a silk-covered board.
Sometime around 1965 Motherwell
painted the silk border, incorporating it
into the work; this collage was listed
for the first time with the larger dimensions when shown at the J. L. Hudson
Gallery in 1966. A similar change was
made to Yellow Envelope (c67) around
the same time.
Fockink No. 2
inscriptions
Recto, upper left (on collage fragment)
[partially torn away]: Moth[erwell] 58
Verso (on backing board): “fockink,
no. 2” Robert Motherwell 1958 oil
+ collage
present owner
Museum of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg,
Fla. Extended loan to the museum by
Elinor Gollay from the Benjamin
Gollay Collection
provenance
Benjamin Gollay, ca. 1959; Elinor
Gollay, 1984; Museum of Fine Arts,
Saint Petersburg, Fla.
group exhibitions
Museum of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg,
Fla., 2008.
references
Arnason 1977b, illus. n.p. (pl. 95, in
studio, in progress); Arnason 1982,
illus. p. 128 (pl. 140, in studio, in
progress).
comments
Along with the Fockink gin label
that is pasted in upside down near the
center of this collage, there are labels
from packages of Pears soap and
Schimmelpenninck Duet cigars. An
early state of this work, when it had
fewer collage elements and an unpainted
ground, is visible in a photograph
of Motherwell’s studio taken during
the winter of 1957–58 (see fig. 92 in
volume 1).
