Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 77
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Marine Collage
1958/after 1972
Oil and pasted papers on paperboard
18 x 15 in. (45.7 x 38.1 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 58
Verso: “Marine Collage” Robert
Motherwell 1958 St-Jean-de-Luz
France
artist’s studio number
c58-2606
present owner
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,
Richmond. Gift of the Dedalus
Foundation, and museum purchase,
the John Barton Payne Fund
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references
Ravenal 2007, p. 190, color illus. p. 191.
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comments
This collage was begun in Saint-Jeande-Luz during the summer of 1958.
An early version (Juley photo no. 178;
j0004968), without the collage element
at the lower center, was shown at the
Sidney Janis Gallery in 1959 and at
Galleria Odyssia, Rome, in 1962. That
collage element, part of an envelope
with the name and address of the
French photographic agency Actualités
Mondial Photo printed on it, was added
sometime around or after 1972 (the
five-digit postal code that is printed on
the envelope was not used in France
until 1972).
Alternative Title: An Artist’s Collage
1958
Pasted papers, ink, and graphite on
board
18 x 14⅞ in. (45.7 x 37.8 cm)
The French Drawing Block
inscriptions
Recto not signed, not dated
Verso (on frame): “The French
Drawing Block” 1958 Robert
Motherwell, St-Jean-de-Luz, France
artist’s studio number
c58-5088
present owner
Yale University Art Gallery. Gift of
Robert Motherwell
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1994
provenance
Yale University Art Gallery, New
Haven, Conn., 1963
solo exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, March
1959, cat. no. 33 (shown in early state).
solo exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, March
1959, cat. no. 34, as An Artist’s Collage.
Galleria Odyssia, Rome, 1962, cat.
no. 18 (shown in early state).
Galerie Heinz Berggruen, Paris, 1961,
color illus. n.p.
Galleria Odyssia, Rome, 1962, cat.
no. 1.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.,
1965, cat. no. 6, cover illus.
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
1967 (circulating), Buenos Aires, cat.
no. 7; Caracas, cat. no. 62; Bogotá, cat.
no. 62; Mexico City, cat. no. 7.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
November 1972 (traveling), cat. no. 16,
illus. p. 64.
group exhibitions
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven,
Conn., 2002, cat. no. 32, illus. n.p.
references
Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin
1964, p. 51, illus. p. 41; Motherwell in
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, exh.
cat. 1972, p. 64; Patton 1973, p. 2;
Caws 1996b, p. 134.
comments
During his time in Saint-Jean-de-Luz,
Motherwell did a number of works on
Lefranc papers and paperboards. The
collage elements in this work include
part of the cover of a Lefranc drawing
co lla ges
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