id: 136693 accession number: 1961.229 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1961.229 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:49.868000 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 title: Mallarme's Swan title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1944 creation date earliest: 1944 creation date latest: 1944 current location: creditline: Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art copyright: © Dedalus Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY --- culture: America, 20th century technique: collage using gouache, crayon and paper on cardboard department: Drawings collection: DR - American 20th Century type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Robert Motherwell (American, 1915–1991) - artist --- measurements: Unframed: 110.5 x 90.2 cm (43 1/2 x 35 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed upper left: Motherwell-1944 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review - 1962 opening date: 1962-10-24T04:00:00 Year in Review - 1962. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 24-November 25, 1962). title: Works of Robert Motherwell opening date: 1963-01-10T05:00:00 Works of Robert Motherwell. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA (organizer) (January 10-28, 1963). title: Robert Motherwell opening date: 1965-09-29T04:00:00 Robert Motherwell. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (organizer) (September 29-November 1, 1965); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1070 AB Amsterdam, Netherlands (January 8-20, 1966); Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (January 31-February 28, 1966); Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (March 1-April 1, 1966); Museum Folkwang, 45128 Essen, Germany (July 2-August 14, 1966). title: The Collages of Robert Motherwell opening date: 1972-11-15T05:00:00 The Collages of Robert Motherwell. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (organizer) (November 15, 1972-January 14, 1973); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 6-25, 1973); Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT (March 14-April 22, 1973); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (May 10-June 24, 1973). title: Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960 opening date: 1987-09-16T04:00:00 Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 16-November 8, 1987). title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). title: In the Beginning was Merz - From Kurt Schwitters to the Present Day opening date: 2000-08-16T00:00:00 In the Beginning was Merz - From Kurt Schwitters to the Present Day. Sprengel Museum Hannover (August 16-November 5, 2000). title: Robert Motherwell: Early Collages opening date: 2013-09-27T00:00:00 Robert Motherwell: Early Collages. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (organizer) (September 27, 2013-January 5, 2014). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Northampton, MA, Smith College Museum of Art, Works of Robert Motherwell, January 10-January 28, 1963, cat. no. 2, repr.', 'opening_date': '1963-01-10T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'also to: Boston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February 11-March 3, 1963.', 'opening_date': '1963-02-11T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'New York, The Museum of Modern Art, Robert Motherwell, September 29-November 30, 1965, cat. no. 12, repr. p. 13.', 'opening_date': '1965-09-29T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'also to: Amsterdam, The Stedelijk Museum, January 8-January 20, 1966; London, Whitechapel Gallery; Basel, Kunsthalle; Essen, Museum Folkwang.', 'opening_date': '1966-01-08T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York', 'opening_date': None} * {'description': 'Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970, October 18, 1969-February 1, 1970, cat. no. 254, repr. pl. p. 93.', 'opening_date': '1969-10-18T00:00:00'} * {'description': '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.', 'opening_date': '1972-11-15T00:00:00'} * {'description': '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.', 'opening_date': '1973-02-06T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, Retrospectiva del gran pinter nortamericano, April-May, 1975, cat. no. 2, repr. p. 10.', 'opening_date': '1975-04-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Buffalo, NY, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Robert Motherwell Retrospective Exhibition, September 15-November 27, 1983, cat. no. 13, repr. p. 125.', 'opening_date': '1983-09-15T00:00:00'} * {'description': '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.', 'opening_date': '1984-01-04T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Mrs. Robert Motherwell date: footnotes: citations: (Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1961 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1961- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 200 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n224 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 200 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n224 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 250 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n270 Henning, Edward B. The Spirit of Surrealism. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979. page number: Mentioned: p. 150, 175; Reproduced: p. 150, no. 90 url: Landau, Ellen G. “‘Space and Pictorial Life’ Hans Hofmann’s ‘Smaragd Red and Germinating Yellow.’” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 5 (September 1985): 310–22. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 311, fig. 4 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159910 Henning, Edward B. Creativity in Art and Science, 1860-1960. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1987. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 133, no. 43 url: Flam, Jack D., Katy Rogers, and Tim Clifford. Motherwell: 100 Years. Milano, Italy: Skira; New York: Dedalus Foundation, 2015. page number: Reproduction: p. 26 url: Kishi, Mizuki. "Jackson Pollock's Painting Process and Viewr Participation: With Reference to Dewey's Art as Experience." NACT Review 3 (2016): 42-60. page number: Reproduced: p. 55, fig. 19 url: --- IMAGES