Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 91
c105
comments
Although in a 1961 Whitney Museum
questionnaire Motherwell noted that
the subtitle of this collage was “For
B. H. Friedman,” it was never officially
given that subtitle. See the Comments
for N.R.F. Collage No. 1 (c104).
N.R.F. Collage No. 3
solo exhibitions
Galerie Heinz Berggruen, Paris, 1961,
color illus. n.p.
1960
Oil and pasted papers on board
29 x 22½ in. (73.7 x 57.2 cm)
Galleria Odyssia, Rome, 1962, cat.
no. 8, color illus. n.p.
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: RM 60
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.,
1965, cat. no. 16.
Recto, upper right, incised: RM 60
group exhibitions
Galerie Charles Lienhard, Zurich,
December 1962, cat. no. 1183.
c106
Verso (on frame): “N.R.F. Collage
No. 3” 1960 Robert Motherwell
artist’s studio number
c60-5102
present owner
Yale University Art Gallery. Gift of
Robert Motherwell
provenance
Yale University Art Gallery, New
Haven, Conn., 1963
Yale University Art Gallery, New
Haven, Conn., 2002, cat. no. 33.
references
Sidney Janis Gallery exh. cat. April
1961, illus. n.p. (in studio, in progress);
Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin
1964, p. 50, illus. p. 40; Museum of
Modern Art, Robert Motherwell, exh. cat.
September 1965, cover illus. (in studio,
in progress); Arnason 1966b, p. 37,
illus. p. 34; Galerie im Erker exh. cat.
1971, illus. p. 11 (in studio, in progress);
Schmidt 1976, illus. p. 77 (in studio,
in progress); Arnason 1977b, pp. 53–54,
illus. n.p. (pl. 119, in studio, in progress); Arnason 1982, pp. 53–54, illus.
p. 138 (pl. 156, in studio, in progress).
comments
An early state of this collage, without
the ultramarine blue paint in the upper
part of the composition, is visible in a
studio photograph taken sometime
after mid-March 1960 (see fig. 101 in
volume 1); the work in this early state
was also photographed individually
(Juley photo no. 276; j0005060). The
blue forms near the top of the work
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