Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 85
c96
c97
c96
Untitled
1959
Gouache, pasted papers, and ink on
paper mounted on board
14¼ x 11¼ in. (36.2 x 28.6 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower left: RM 59
present owner
Collection of Mr. Fred Birner
provenance
Greenberg Gallery, Saint Louis; John
C. Stoller & Co., Minneapolis, 1982;
Mrs. Edmund Ruben; [Christie’s,
New York, November 2, 1984, lot 149,
illus.]; Marisa del Re Gallery, Inc.,
1984; [Christie’s, New York, November
13, 1991, lot 126, illus.]; private collection, 1991; [Sotheby’s, New York,
November 15, 2006, lot 168, illus.];
Fred Birner, 2006
solo exhibitions
Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, 1992,
color illus. p. 25.
comments
This collage includes two torn pieces
of paper that contain the same printed
text from Herodotus’s Histories that
Motherwell used in other collages from
this period (see c95, c97, and c98).
The pasted element at the lower left
of the composition contains the text
“container corporation of america,”
referring to the company that published
the Herodotus text used by Motherwell
in this and related collages.
c98
c97
c98
Human Life Is More . . .
Tricolor
1959
Ink and pasted paper on paper
11¼ x 14 in. (28.6 x 35.6 cm)
1959
Oil, pasted papers, and ink on paper
14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 59
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 59
artist’s studio number
c59-343
Verso, original backing board removed
(inscription on a fragment of the backing board held in the National Gallery
of Art, Conservation Department):
“tricolor” 1959 oil + collage
present owner
Worcester Art Museum. Eliza S. Paine
Fund and gift of the Dedalus
Foundation
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Worcester
Art Museum, Mass., 1997
comments
The text on the torn yellow paper
at the lower left of this collage is
from Herodotus’s Histories; see the
Comments for Untitled (c95).
artist’s studio number
c59-337
present owner
National Gallery of Art, Washington,
D.C. The Nancy Lee and Perry Bass
Fund, 1999.55.5
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; National
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1999
comments
A black-and-white photograph of an
early version of this work (Juley photo
co lla ges
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