Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 80
c87
c87
Memory of St.-Jean-de-Luz
Alternative Title: Gauloises
1958
Oil, pasted papers, ink and graphite
on paper
10½ x 8½ in. (26.7 x 21.6 cm)
inscriptions
Recto not signed, not dated
Verso: “memory of st-jean-de-luz”
Robert Motherwell 1958
present owner
Collection of Clifford Ross
provenance
Arthur and Gloria Ross, 1959; Gloria
Ross, ca. 1970; Clifford Ross, 1998
solo exhibitions
New Gallery, Bennington College, Vt.,
1959 (not in catalogue).
Smith College Museum of Art,
Northampton, Mass., 1963, cat. no. 8,
as Gauloises.
comments
The pasted papers in this collage
include part of the label from a bottle
of Bols Wolverton Dry Gin and a
Gauloises Disque Bleu cigarette
package.
c88
c88
Untitled
Gallery Association of New York State,
Hamilton, October 1988 (circulating),
illus. p. 7.
1958
Oil, pasted paper, and graphite on
paper
14¼ x 11¼ in. (36.2 x 28.6 cm)
Grey Art Gallery, New York University,
2008 (traveling), color illus. p. 165.
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM
Verso: Nov 1958 For Donald Peters
from his friend Robert Motherwell
Verso: Greetings—bon Santé—good
cheer Bob
present owner
Grey Art Gallery & Study Center,
New York University Art Collection.
Anonymous gift
provenance
Harriet and Donald Peters, 1958;
Harriet Peters, 1960; Grey Art Gallery,
New York University, 1964
group exhibitions
Gould Student Center Gallery, New
York University, 1968, cat. no. 19.
Grey Art Gallery, New York University,
1976, illus. p. 67.
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collages
comments
This collage was most likely created in
Saint-Jean-de-Luz during the summer
of 1958. The “Nov 1958” date inscribed
on the verso is probably the date that
Motherwell dedicated the work to the
collector Donald Peters.
