Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 607
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Mural Study
Mural Study
1978
Oil on paperboard
13½ x 40 in. (34.3 x 101.6 cm)
1978
Oil and graphite on paperboard
13½ x 40 in. (34.3 x 101.6 cm)
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: RM 78
inscriptions
Recto, upper left: RM April 78
inscriptions
Recto, upper right: RM 78
artist’s studio number
p78-2490
Verso: Robert Motherwell April 1978
artist’s studio number
d78-2172
present owner
Dina and Jerry Wind
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Dina and
Jerry Wind, 2002
solo exhibitions
Marlborough Gallery, New York, 2002,
as Untitled (Elegy Study).
references
Arnason 1982, illus. p. 219 (pl. 305).
comments
Motherwell painted this work as a study
for the large Reconciliation Elegy (p956).
It was used as a model for the 1983
lithograph Black with No Way Out
(Engberg and Banach 2003, no. 313).
artist’s studio number
p78-2489
It was used as the model for a 1981
etching and aquatint, The Black Wall
(Engberg and Banach 2003, no. 275)
and for a 1983 lithograph, Elegy Black
Black (Engberg and Banach 2003,
no. 309).
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Elegy Study
1978
Acrylic and ink on paper
13⅞ x 16¾ in. (35.2 x 42.5 cm)
present owner
Private collection
present owner
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. James R.
Patton Jr.
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2002
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; Mr. and
Mrs. James R. Patton Jr., 2004
references
Arnason 1982, illus. p. 219 (pl. 306).
solo exhibitions
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, 1979,
cat. no. 111, illus. n.p. (in exhibition), as
Untitled.
comments
This work is related to the large
Reconciliation Elegy (p956). Though
the finished mural was installed in the
National Gallery of Art in March 1978,
this smaller work was completed the
following month and dated “April
1978” on both the recto and the verso.
group exhibitions
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown,
Mass., August 1978, cat. no. 10.
Knoedler & Company, New York, 2004,
cat. no. 5.
p a i n tin gs on paper and paperbo ard
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