Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 431
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Bird Study
Monument to Jackson Pollock
1954
Oil on paper
11⅝ x 15¾ in. (29.5 x 40 cm)
1956
Oil and graphite on paper mounted on
canvas
20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 54
present owner
Unknown
provenance
Paul Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles;
Stanley N. Barbee, San Francisco;
[Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York,
February 16, 1961, lot 28]; unknown
owner, 1961; [Sotheby Parke Bernet,
Inc., New York, May 27, 1976, lot 377,
illus. (not sold)]; [Sotheby Parke
Bernet, Inc., New York, June 8, 1977,
lot 99, illus.]; unknown owner, 1977
comments
Our reproduction comes from a blackand-white illustration of this work in
the 1977 Sotheby Parke Bernet auction
catalogue.
comments
This work was painted shortly after the
death of Jackson Pollock on August 11,
1956. Its composition is similar to
Je t’aime No. VII (p160), a painting on
canvas that Motherwell began in 1956
and reworked during the 1980s.
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Elegy to the Spanish Republic
XL
1958
Oil and graphite on paper
15½ x 18 in. (39.4 x 45.7 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: R Motherwell
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: R.M. 58
present owner
Italian private collection
Verso (on backing board): Elegy to the
Spanish Republic, XL oil on rag
paper
provenance
Dwan Gallery, New York, 1959;
private collection; [Christie’s, New
York, November 9, 1979, lot 10, illus.];
unknown owner, 1979; [Sotheby’s, New
York, November 14, 1991, lot 281,
illus.]; Italian private collection, 1991
solo exhibitions
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, May
1957, cat. no. 10.
references
Rice 1957, p. 9, as Monument to Pollock;
S[awin] 1957, p. 56, as Homage to
Jackson Pollock.
present owner
The private collection of Lois and
Hank Foster
provenance
Joann and Gifford Phillips, before 1962;
[Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., Los
Angeles, February 27, 1974, lot 398,
illus.]; private collection, 1974; Lois and
Hank Foster
solo exhibitions
Pasadena Art Museum, Calif.,
February 1962, cat. no. 35, illus. n.p.
p a i n tin gs on paper and paperbo ard
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