Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 476
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Black and Blue and White
Torn Elegy
1961
Oil on paper
27⅜ x 22½ in. (69.5 x 57.2 cm)
Alternative Title: Untitled
1962
Acrylic and graphite on paperboard
10⅝ x 15 in. (27 x 38.1 cm), irreg.
inscriptions
Recto, upper center: R Motherwell 61
present owner
Collection of Mrs. David A. Prager
provenance
Mrs. David A. Prager, 1962
solo exhibitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Robert Motherwell, September 1965
(traveling), New York, cat. no. 55, illus.
p. 83; Amsterdam, cat. no. 52, illus.
n.p.; Essen, cat. no. 52; Turin, cat.
no. 52.
group exhibitions
Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, May 1964, cat. no. 106.
references
Trotta 1965, illus. p. 122 (cat. no. 12);
Baro 1966a, illus. p. 37; Arnason 1977b,
p. 64; Arnason 1982, p. 64.
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inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 62
artist’s studio number
p62-1954
present owner
Renate Ponsold Motherwell
provenance
Renate Ponsold Motherwell, 1991
solo exhibitions
Knoedler & Company, New York,
February 1981, cat. no. 12, as Untitled.
Museum of Modern Art, New York,
1987.
Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery,
Columbia University, New York, 1997
(traveling), cat. no. I.3, color illus. p. 98
(pl. 2); shown in New York only.
paintings on p a p e r an d p a p e r b o a r d
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group exhibitions
Knoedler & Company, New York, 1983,
cat. no. 10.
references
Glenn 1984, color illus. p. 86 (installation view); Flam 1991, color illus. n.p.
(pl. 67).
comments
This work was originally painted on a
rectangular cardboard support. At an
unknown date, Motherwell either tore
the right and left sides of the work or
discovered that they had ripped on their
own and chose to maintain the fragmentary appearance of the work. It was
already torn when shown at Knoedler
& Company in 1981. When it was
exhibited in 1983, it was shown for the
first time with its current title.
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Elegy to the Spanish Republic
1962
Oil on paperboard
7 x 9½ in. (17.8 x 24.1 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, lower right: RM 62
present owner
Private collection, New York
provenance
Private collection, New York, 1962
