Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 82
c90
Mail Figure
group exhibitions
American Federation of Arts, New
York, 1959 (circulating), cat. no. 27.
1959
Gouache and pasted papers on paper
28½ x 22½ in. (72.4 x 57.2 cm)
Galerie Charles Lienhard, Zurich,
December 1962, cat. no. 1184.
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 59
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.,
1982, cat. no. 9.
Verso (on backing board): “Mail
Figure” Robert Motherwell 1959
Falmouth, Mass.
Fenwick Library Gallery, George
Mason University, Fairfax, Va., 1983.
c90
artist’s studio number
d59-5099
present owner
The Phillips Collection, Washington,
D.C.
provenance
Marjorie Phillips, 1965; Phillips
Collection, Washington, D.C., 1966
solo exhibitions
Galerie Heinz Berggruen, Paris, 1961,
illus. n.p.
c91
c91
Canadian Collage
1959
Oil and pasted papers on paper
22 x 18 in. (55.9 x 45.7 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right, incised and
inscribed: RM 59
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.,
1999, cat. no. 371, color illus. p. 589.
Verso not seen [“signed, titled and
dated 1959 on the cardboard backing,”
per Sotheby’s, 1992]
University of Virginia Art Museum,
Charlottesville, 2004.
present owner
Unknown
references
Pleynet 1975, p. 9.
provenance
Ulfert Wilke; Edward Tyler Nahem
Fine Art, LLC, 1992; [Sotheby’s, New
York, November 18, 1992, lot 97, illus.
(not sold)]; unknown owner
comments
The pasted paper at the center of this
collage is part of an envelope from
Bowes & Bowes booksellers, Cambridge,
England, postmarked July 13, 1959.
solo exhibitions
Galerie Heinz Berggruen, Paris, 1961,
color illus. n.p.
Galleria Odyssia, Rome, 1962, cat.
no. 2.
Galleria Odyssia, Rome, 1962, cat.
no. 23.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.,
1965, cat. no. 9.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.,
1965, cat. no. 8.
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collages
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Robert Motherwell:Works on Paper,
September 1965 (circulating).
group exhibitions
University of Iowa Museum of Art,
Iowa City, 1975, cat. no. 373, illus. p. 67.
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, 1991.
Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch
College, New York, 1992, cat. no. 23.
comments
The central pasted element in this collage is a fragment of a Player’s cigarette
package with a Canadian tobacco stamp
attached to it. Motherwell traveled in
Canada with Helen Frankenthaler during the latter part of August 1959.
