Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 89
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N.R.F. Collage No. 1
Alternative Title: N.R.F. Collage No. 2
1959–60
Oil and pasted paper on board
28⅜ x 22⅜ in. (72.1 x 56.8 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left, incised: R.
Motherwell 59
artist’s studio number
c59-5092
present owner
Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York. Purchase, with funds from
the Friends of the Whitney Museum of
American Art
provenance
Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, 1961
solo exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, April
1961, cat. no. 15, illus. n.p.; illus. n.p.
(in studio, in progress), as N.R.F.
Collage, No. 2.
Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1976
(traveling), cat. no. 23, illus. p. 103.
Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York,
1977, cat. no. 121, illus. n.p.
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de
Paris, 1977, illus. n.p.
references
Rosenberg 1961, illus. p. 22 (in exhibition); Schiff 1961, illus. p. 63; Seldis
1962b, sec. A, p. 24; Museum of
Modern Art, Robert Motherwell, exh. cat.
September 1965, cover illus. (in studio,
in progress); Vogue 1965, illus. p. 141
(cat. no. 6, in exhibition); Arnason
1966b, p. 32; Galerie im Erker exh. cat.
1971, illus. p. 11 (in studio, in progress);
O’Hara 1975, p. 65; Schmidt 1976, illus.
p. 77 (in studio, in progress); Arnason
1977b, pp. 53, 54, illus. n.p. (pls. 119,
in studio, in progress, 120); Motherwell
in Arnason 1977b, n.p.; Arnason 1982,
pp. 53, 54, illus. pp. 138 (pl. 156, in
studio, in progress), 139 (pl. 157);
Motherwell in Arnason 1982, p. 139;
Lowe Art Museum, University of
Miami, exh. cat. 1989, illus. p. 115
Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo,
Brazil, 1961, cat. no. 28.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo,
1983 (traveling), cat. no. 34, color illus.
p. 77.
Pasadena Art Museum, Calif.,
February 1962, cat. no. 41, illus. n.p.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, 1984, cat. no. 21.
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Robert Motherwell, September 1965
(traveling), New York, cat. no. 45, color
illus. p. 64; Amsterdam, cat. no. 40,
illus. n.p.; Essen, cat. no. 40; Turin,
cat. no. 40, color illus. p. 93 (pl. 33).
group exhibitions
Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, 1962, illus. n.p.
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
January 1965 (circulating), New York,
cat. no. 40.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
November 1972 (traveling), cat. no. 19,
illus. p. 67.
Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, 1974.
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City,
1975, cat. no. 16, color illus. n.p.
Miami-Dade Community College, Fla.,
1976, illus. p. 15 (sideways).
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