Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 471
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Elegy to the Spanish Republic
No. 61
1960
Oil and graphite on paperboard
11½ x 14½ in. (29.2 x 36.8 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 60
present owner
Private collection, Philadelphia
provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Lee V. Eastman;
[Christie’s, New York, November 9,
2005, lot 215, illus.]; private collection,
Philadelphia, 2005
solo exhIbItIons
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, April
1961, cat. no. 9, illus. n.p.
Smith College Museum of Art,
Northampton, Mass., 1963, cat. no. 20,
cover illus., illus. n.p., as Elegy to the
Spanish Republic LXI.
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Group exhIbItIons
Lowe Art Museum, University of
Miami, Coral Gables, 1989 (traveling),
cat. no. 75, illus. p. 68 (pl. 53), illus.
p. 110 (pl. 90).
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Spanish Elegy
Untitled
1960
Oil and graphite on paperboard
7 x 9⅜ in. (17.8 x 23.8 cm)
1960
Oil and graphite on paperboard
7 x 9⅜ in. (17.8 x 23.8 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower left: R Motherwell
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left: RM
Verso: For Adam Emmerich spanIsh
eleGy oIl sketch Robert Motherwell
december 25, 1960
present owner
Unknown
present owner
Collection of Adam Emmerich
provenance
Adam Emmerich, 1960
comments
This work was presented as a gift,
and dedicated on the verso, to mark
the birth of the art dealer André
Emmerich’s son, Adam, born
December 15, 1960.
provenance
Galerie Suzanne Bollag; unknown
owner, 1967; [Sotheby’s, London, June
24, 2004, lot 251, illus.]; unknown
owner, 2004
references
Art International 1961, cover color illus.
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