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Mallarme's Swan

1944

Robert Motherwell

(American, 1915-1991)

America, 20th century

Collage using gouache, crayon and paper on cardboard

Unframed: 110.5 x 90.2 cm (43 1/2 x 35 1/2 in.)

Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1961.229

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not on view

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signed upper left: Motherwell-1944

Provenance

Mrs. Robert Motherwell; (Robert Elkon Gallery, New York).

Citations

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 200 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 200 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 250 archive.org

Flam, Jack D., Katy Rogers, and Tim Clifford. Motherwell: 100 Years. Milano, Italy: Skira; New York: Dedalus Foundation, 2015. Reproduction: p. 26

Kishi, Mizuki. "Jackson Pollock's Painting Process and Viewr Participation: With Reference to Dewey's Art as Experience." NACT Review 3 (2016): 42-60. Reproduced: p. 55, fig. 19

Exhibition history

Northampton, MA, Smith College Museum of Art, Works of Robert Motherwell, January 10-January 28, 1963, cat. no. 2, repr.

also to: Boston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February 11-March 3, 1963.

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Robert Motherwell, September 29-November 30, 1965, cat. no. 12, repr. p. 13.

also to: Amsterdam, The Stedelijk Museum, January 8-January 20, 1966; London, Whitechapel Gallery; Basel, Kunsthalle; Essen, Museum Folkwang.

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970, October 18, 1969-February 1, 1970, cat. no. 254, repr. pl. p. 93.

Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, The Collages of Robert Motherwell, November 15, 1972-January 15, 1973, cat. no. 54, repr. p. 55 and p. 19.

also to: Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, February 6-February 25, 1973; Hartford, CT, The Wadsworth Atheneum, March 14-April 22, 1973; Boston, The Museum of Fine Arts, May 10-June 24, 1973.

Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, Retrospectiva del gran pinter nortamericano, April-May, 1975, cat. no. 2, repr. p. 10.

Buffalo, NY, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Robert Motherwell Retrospective Exhibition, September 15-November 27, 1983, cat. no. 13, repr. p. 125.

also to: Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, January 4-March 4, 1984; San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, April 7-May 28, 1984; Seattle, Seattle Art Museum, June 22-August 5, 1984; Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, September 8-October 28, 1984; New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, December 1, 1984-January 31, 1985.

CMA 1987: Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960, September 16-November 8, 1987, cat. no. 43, p. 133, repr.

CMA 1991: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum, June 7-September 8, 1991.

Hannover, Germany (8/20-11/8/00) "In the Beginning was Merz - From Kurt Schwitters to the Present Day" exh. cat. 299, p. 67, p. 331.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC (9/27/2013 - 1/5/2014): "Robert Motherwell: Early Collages" ex. cat. no. 23, p. 97.

Year in Review - 1962. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 24-November 25, 1962).

Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 16-November 8, 1987).

Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).

In the Beginning was Merz - From Kurt Schwitters to the Present Day. Sprengel Museum Hannover (August 16-November 5, 2000).

Robert Motherwell: Early Collages. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (organizer) (September 27, 2013-January 5, 2014).

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