Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941 – 1991 Volume 3 - Flipbook - Page 663
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Untitled
Lament for Hektor Slain
1987
Acrylic and china marker on paper
23 x 29 in. (58.4 x 73.7 cm)
Alternative Title: Hector’s Corpse
1987
Acrylic and Conté crayon on paper
29 x 23 in. (73.7 x 58.4 cm)
InscrIptIons
Recto, upper left: Motherwell 87
artIst’s studIo number
d87-3282
present owner
Private collection
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2008
InscrIptIons
Recto not signed, not dated
Verso (on backing board): lament for
hektor slaIn R. Motherwell 1987
N.F.S.
artIst’s studIo number
d87-3481
present owner
Private collection
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references
Nickerson 1987, p. 8.
comments
The title of this painting refers to the
Trojan warrior from The Iliad, who
was slain by Achilles. On the verso,
Motherwell titled it Lament for Hektor
Slain, and he sent it under that title to
the Homeric Themes exhibition at the
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, in
August 1987. This work, however, was
also referred to as Hector’s Corpse on
a press release for that same exhibition;
it is unclear whether this second title
was erroneous or Motherwell had
supplied it as well.
provenance
Dedalus Foundation, 1991; private
collection, 2009
solo exhIbItIons
Marisa del Re Gallery, New York,
February 1989.
Galerie Lelong, Paris, 2005.
Group exhIbItIons
Long Point Gallery, Provincetown,
Mass., 1987.
p a i n tin gs on paper and paperbo ard
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