ID 1423003
Lot 56 | ROBERT MOTHERWELL (1915-1991)
Estimate value
$ 3 500 000 – 5 500 000
Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 160
signed with the artist’s initials and dated ‘RM Sept 79’ (upper right)
acrylic and charcoal on canvas
49 ¾ x 80 in. (126.4 x 203.2 cm.)
Executed in 1979.
Provenance
M. Knoedler Zurich
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1982
Literature
J. Corredór-Mattheos, “Gran exposición de Motherwell en Barcelona,” Triunfo, vol. 33, no. 895, 22 March 1980, p. 40.
S. Torroella, “Robert Motherwell en Barcelona,” El Noticiero Universal, 6 March 1980, p. 17.
D. Ronte, Hess Collection, New York, 1989, pp. 140 and 144-145, no. 92 (illustrated).
J. M. Bonet, “Motherwell en el Recuerdo,” Arte y Parte, no. 5, October-November 1996, p. 8 (titled Elegía a la República Española n° 160).
D. Hess and M. Steiner, ed., Hess Art Collection, Berlin, 2009, pp. 234 and 238-239 (illustrated).
J. Flam, K. Rogers and T. Clifford, eds., Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941-1991, Volume One: Essays and References, New Haven and London, 2012, pp. 242-243, no. P964, fig. 255 (illustrated).
J. Flam, K. Rogers and T. Clifford, eds., Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941-1991, Volume Two: Paintings on Canvas and Panel, New Haven and London, 2012, p. 471, no. P964 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Provincetown, Long Point Gallery, Motherwell, September 1979, no. 10.
Barcelona, Centro Cultural de la Caixa de Pensions and Madrid, Fundación Juan March, Motherwell, February-May 1980, n.p., no. 23 (titled Elegía a la República Española n.° 160).
| Artist: | Robert Motherwell (1915 - 1991) |
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| Art style: | Post War Art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
| Artist: | Robert Motherwell (1915 - 1991) |
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| Art style: | Post War Art |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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