Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 433
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Untitled
Elegy Sketch
Group exhIbItIons
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton,
N.Y., 1980 (traveling), cat. no. 34.
1958
Oil on paper
5⅞ x 7¾ in. (14.9 x 19.7 cm)
Alternative Title: Elegy Study
Ca. 1958
Oil and graphite on paper
5¾ x 7¾ in. (14.6 x 19.7 cm)
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton,
N.Y., 1988, illus. p. 56, as Elegy Study.
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 58
present owner
Private collection
provenAnce
Ownership undetermined; [Christie’s,
New York, February 23, 1990, lot 5,
illus.]; private collection, 1990
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM
ArtIst’s studIo number
d49-2462
present owner
Art Gallery of Ontario. Purchased with
funds from an anonymous donor, with
support from the Dedalus Foundation,
1998
provenAnce
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Art Gallery
of Ontario, Toronto, 1998
solo exhIbItIons
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, 1984, cat. no. 64.
Knoedler & Company, New York, 1994,
cat. no. 13, as Elegy Study.
references
Drudi 1984, color illus. p. 15 (in studio);
Drudi 1988b, color illus. p. 15, color
illus. p. 63 (in studio); Pleynet 1989b,
color illus. p. 173 (in studio); Hume
1998, color illus. p. 1; Galerie Bernd
Klüser exh. cat. 2001, color illus. p. 60
(in studio).
comments
This work is executed on a page from a
spiral-bound Strathmore sketchbook;
unusually for Motherwell, he had it
framed with the side holes showing. It
was erroneously given a 1949 date
when it was exhibited at the Parrish
Art Museum in July 1980; the title
Elegy Sketch was given to it at that time.
It almost certainly dates from 1958,
based on its similarities with other
paintings on paper done by Motherwell
that year.
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Untitled
Alternative Title: {Study for an Elegy }
1958
Oil and graphite on paper
5¾ x 7¾ in. (14.6 x 19.7 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 58
present owner
Collection of Bobbie Foshay
provenAnce
Ownership undetermined; Bobbie
Foshay, 1997
p a i n tin gs on paper and paperbo ard
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