Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 601
w516
w516
Elegy Study A
1977
Oil on paper
14¼ x 22¼ in. (36.2 x 56.5 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left: RM 77
Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts,
Lausanne, Switzerland, 1999, cat.
no. 59.
comments
The composition of this work (and also
of w517–w520) recalls that of a 1960
painting on paper, The Figure 4 on an
Elegy (w104).
w517
Washington University Gallery of Art,
Saint Louis, 1995, cat. no. 20, cover
illus.
w517
Elegy Study B
1977
Oil on paper
23 x 23 in. (58.4 x 58.4 cm)
references
Washington University Gallery of Art
Bulletin 1995, pp. 2, 3, illus. p. 2.
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper right: RM 77
artIst’s studIo number
p77-1163
artIst’s studIo number
d77-1314
present owner
Private collection, Lausanne
present owner
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum,
Washington University in Saint Louis.
University purchase, Charles H. Yalem
Art Fund, and gift of the Dedalus
Foundation, 1995
provenance
Knoedler & Company, 1985; private
collection, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1988
solo exhIbItIons
Knoedler & Company, New York, 1978,
cat. no. 28, illus. p. 5, illus. p. 21.
Knoedler Zürich, 1984.
Group exhIbItIons
Rockland Center for the Arts, West
Nyack, N.Y., 1979, cat. no. 35, illus. n.p.
(sideways).
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Mildred
Lane Kemper Art Museum,
Washington University, Saint Louis,
1995
solo exhIbItIons
Knoedler & Company, New York, 1978,
cat. no. 29, illus. p. 21.
Turske & Turske, Zurich, 1987.
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