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Mallarme's Swan
1944
Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell (American, 1915–1991)
Drawings
Mallarme's Swan, 1944. Robert Motherwell (American, 1915–1991). Collage using gouache, crayon and paper on cardboard; unframed: 110.5 x 90.2 cm (43 1/2 x 35 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art 1961.229 © Dedalus Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY This drawing is one of several works that Robert Motherwell made in tribute to the French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898). A member of the New York School, Motherwell stood out among his contemporaries for his literary references within a movement that otherwise favored pure abstraction. He worked in collage, the process used here, for much of his career, expressively tearing and layering paper and everyday materials. Robert Motherwell originally titled this work Mallarme's Dream, but artist Joseph Cornell suggested changing it to its present version.
- Maker/Artist
- Motherwell, Robert
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- collage using gouache, crayon and paper on cardboard
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 110.5 x 90.2 cm (43 1/2 x 35 1/2 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed upper left: Motherwell-1944
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1961.229
- Credit Line
- Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review - 1962, Works of Robert Motherwell, Robert Motherwell, The Collages of Robert Motherwell, Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960, Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum, In the Beginning was Merz - From Kurt Schwitters to the Present Day, Robert Motherwell: Early Collages, Northampton, MA, Smith College Museum of Art, Works of Robert Motherwell, January 10-January 28, 1963, cat. no. 2, repr.<br>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.<br>also to: Amsterdam, The Stedelijk Museum, January 8-January 20, 1966; London, Whitechapel Gallery; Basel, Kunsthalle; Essen, Museum Folkwang.<br>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.<br>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.<br>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.
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted undefined
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