Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 432
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Group exhIbItIons
UCLA Art Galleries, Los Angeles,
1962, cat. no. 74, as Elegy to the Spanish
Republic.
Art Gallery, University of California at
Riverside, 1973, as Elegy to the Spanish
Republic.
references
Haftmann 1960, illus. p. 501 (pl. 881, as
Elegy for the Spanish Republic); Secunda
1962, p. 7; Haftmann 1965, illus. p. 359
(pl. 881, as Elegy to the Spanish Republic);
Arnason 1966b, p. 29; Hobbs 1975b,
pp. 240, 260, illus. n.p. (pl. 24).
comments
This is the last Elegy painting that
Motherwell inscribed with a Roman
numeral. Its composition is related to
Elegy for the Spanish Republic XXXV
(p168), which was completed in 1958.
As evidenced in this work and other
Elegy paintings from this period, the
numbering of the Elegy paintings on
paper was not chronologically sequential. See, for example, the Elegies given
the numbers 44, 45, and 50 (w108,
w109, and w32 respectively).
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Spanish Still Life
Untitled
Untitled
1958
Oil and graphite on paperboard
11½ x 14½ in. (29.2 x 36.8 cm)
Ca. 1958
Oil and graphite on paper
5¾ x 7⅝ in. (14.6 x 19.4 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 58
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left: RM
Alternative Title: {Elegy Sketch}
1958
Oil and graphite on paper
5¾ x 7⅝ in. (14.6 x 19.4 cm)
present owner
Private collection
present owner
Richard Aakre
provenAnce
Private collection, 1959
provenAnce
Richard Aakre, 1972
comments
This work is closely related to the 1958
painting Afternoon in Barcelona (p171).
comments
Motherwell traded this work for a
painting by Richard Aakre, who was his
studio assistant in 1971–72.
paintings on p a p e r an d p a p e r b o a r d
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM
present owner
Private collection
provenAnce
Ownership undetermined; private
collection, 1996
