Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 532
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Study for Elegy to the Spanish
Republic No. 110E
Open with Elegy
1968
Acrylic and graphite on paper
6 x 8 in. (15.2 x 20.3 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower left: RM 68
present owner
Private collection, Victoria, British
Columbia, Canada
provenance
Mrs. M. E. Pyrch, ca. 1973; private
collection, Victoria, British Columbia,
Canada, 2001
solo exhIbItIons
Art Museum, Princeton University,
N.J., 1973, cat. no. 16.
references
Wohl 1973, illus. p. 43, erroneously as
Study for Elegy 1968.
1968
Acrylic and graphite on paper
6 x 7⅝ in. (15.2 x 19.4 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower left: RM
Verso not seen [“R. Motherwell 1966,”
per studio card]
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Silent Form No. 1
1968
Acrylic and graphite on paper
6 x 8 in. (15.2 x 20.3 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, lower left: RM 68
artIst’s studIo number
d68-222
artIst’s studIo number
d66-2626
present owner
Dedalus Foundation
present owner
Private collection, New York
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991
provenance
Private collection; private collection,
New York, 1981
solo exhIbItIons
William Ehrlich Gallery, New York,
May 1979.
solo exhIbItIons
Knoedler & Company, New York,
February 1993, cat. no. 10.
Marisa del Re Gallery, New York,
February 1989.
references
Caws 1996b, p. 169.
comments
The title of this work, Open with
Elegy, was given around 1981, when
Motherwell, at the request of the owner
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of the work, signed it on the verso and
added the approximated date of 1966.
This work, however, was almost certainly among the numerous similar
Elegies painted on paper roughly measuring 6 x 8 inches that Motherwell
painted in 1968, after he had begun the
Open series. The isolation of the Elegy
image within a linear Open form drawn
in graphite further links this work to
other paintings on paper done in 1968.
paintings on p a p e r an d p a p e r b o a r d
