Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 94
c109
Galleria Odyssia, Rome, 1962, cat.
no. 6, illus. n.p.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.,
1965, cat. no. 11.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
November 1972 (traveling), cat. no. 22,
illus. p. 70.
Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona, 1986
(traveling), Barcelona, cat. no. 36, color
illus. n.p.; Palma de Mallorca, cat.
no. 36, color illus. n.p.; Madrid, cat.
no. 36, color illus. n.p. (reversed).
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington,
1999 (reversed).
group exhibitions
Galerie Charles Lienhard, Zurich,
December 1962, cat. no. 1179.
references
Janis and Blesh 1962, illus. p. 164
(fig. 220, in progress); Motherwell in
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, exh.
cat. 1972, p. 70; Patton 1973, p. 2;
Arnason 1977b, illus. n.p. (pl. 125, in
studio, reversed); Miralles 1986, illus.
p. 41 (reversed); Caws 1996b, p. 129.
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collages
comments
Motherwell noted that this work was
“called Reversible Collage because
accidentally signed two different ways,
and ‘works’ equally well either way”
(Motherwell in Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston, exh. cat. 1972, p. 70). It was
first shown as illustrated here and
sometimes shown or reproduced
reversed (rotated 180 degrees from our
reproduction); see Exhibitions and
References, above.
c110
c109
Sea Horse Collage
1960
Oil and pasted papers on paper
30 x 23 in. (76.2 x 58.4 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left, incised: R Motherwell
1960
Verso (on backing board): “sea horse
collage” Robert Motherwell 1960
present owner
Eight Modern, Santa Fe
provenance
Klaus Gebhardt, Munich, ca. 1961;
Peter Lempelius, Munich, 1976;
private collection, 1988; [Sotheby’s,
New York, October 4, 1990, lot 61, illus.
(not sold)]; [Sotheby’s, New York,
November 15, 2006, lot 133, illus.];
Eight Modern, Santa Fe, N.Mex., 2006
solo exhibitions
Galerie Heinz Berggruen, Paris, 1961,
illus. n.p.
Galleria Odyssia, Rome, 1962, cat.
no. 5, illus. n.p.
references
Arnason 1977b, illus. n.p. (pl. 125,
in studio).
