Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 470
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Elegy to the Spanish Republic
No. 45
1960
Casein on paper
22½ x 28½ in. (57.2 x 72.4 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 60
artIst’s studIo number
d60-1470
present owner
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles
references
Arnason 1966b, p. 29; Hobbs 1975b,
p. 255; Arnason 1977b, p. 46; Arnason
1982, p. 46; Muchnic 1998, p. 178,
color illus. p. 178.
comments
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 40, 44, and 50 (w25,
w108, and w32 respectively).
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Manny
Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, 1998
solo exhIbItIons
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, 1979,
cat. no. 26, illus. n.p.; illus. n.p. (in
exhibition).
Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles,
1997, cat. no. 24, cover color illus.
Group exhIbItIons
New School Art Center, New York,
1969, cat. no. 98.
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paintings on p a p e r an d p a p e r b o a r d
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[ Untitled (Black Elegy)]
Elegy to the Spanish Republic
No. 60
1960/after ca. 1962
Acrylic and gouache on paper
22¾ x 29 in. (57.8 x 73.7 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 60
artIst’s studIo number
d60-1274
present owner
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia. Gift of the Dedalus
Foundation and John Lambert Fund,
1994.6.4
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991;
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, 1994
comments
The passages of acrylic paint were
added to this work sometime after 1962.
1960
Oil on paperboard
11½ x 14 in. (29.2 x 35.6 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 60
present owner
Unknown
provenance
Harriet Mnuchin Weiner, 1961;
[Christie’s, New York, May 10, 1983,
lot 11, illus.]; Martin Selig, 1983;
unknown owner
solo exhIbItIons
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, April
1961, cat. no. 8, illus. n.p.
comments
When this work was shown at the
Sidney Janis Gallery in 1961, it was
erroneously dated to 1959 in the exhibition catalogue even though it is clearly
signed “RM 60” at the upper right.
Our reproduction of this work
comes from the 1983 Christie’s auction
catalogue.
