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Monuments: Works from the Collection of Robert Motherwell & Renate Ponsold Motherwell

Robert Motherwell

Blotting Paper Collage

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Monuments: Works from the Collection of Robert Motherwell & Renate Ponsold Motherwell

Robert Motherwell

1915 - 1991

Blotting Paper Collage


signed with the artist's initials RM and dated 67 (upper left); signed with the artist's initials RM, dated 1990 and dedicated for Renate love RM (on the backing board)

acrylic, paper collage and charcoal on paper 

37 ¾ by 23 ¾ in.

95.9 by 60.3 cm.

Executed in 1967. 

Collection of Robert Motherwell & Renate Ponsold Motherwell

Thence by descent to the present owner

Houston, Museum of Fine Arts; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, The Collages of Robert Motherwell: A Retrospective Exhibition, November 1972 - January 1973, no. 29, p. 77, illustrated

Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Robert Motherwell, September 1976, no. 34, p. 107, illustrated

Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Robert Motherwell: Choix de peintures et collages, 1941-1977, June - September 1977, p. 4, illustrated

Buffalo, Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Seattle Art Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Robert Motherwell, October 1983 - January 1985, no. 46, p. 87, illustrated in color

Janet Baker-Carr, "A conversation with Robert Motherwell, painter," Harvard Magazine, October 1975, vol. 78, no. 2, p. 41, illustrated

Jack P. O'Neill, ed., Robert Motherwell, New York 1977, pl. 188, n.p., illustrated 

Ellen Grand, ed., Robert Motherwell, New York 1982, pp. 73, 83 (text) and pl. 227, p. 161, illustrated in color

Jack Flam, Motherwell, New York 1991, no. 83, n.p., illustrated in color

Jack Flam, Katy Rogers and Tim Clifford, eds., Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages on Paper and Paperboard: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941-1991, vol. III, New Haven 2012, no. C220, p. 130, illustrated in color