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Drawn Together: The Collection of Marcia and Stanley Gumberg, featuring Modern Masterworks on Paper

Robert Motherwell

Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 59

Auction Closed

May 18, 01:03 AM GMT

Estimate

400,000 - 600,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Drawn Together: The Collection of Marcia and Stanley Gumberg, featuring Modern Masterworks on Paper

Robert Motherwell

1915 - 1991

Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 59 


oil and gouache on wove paper

22 ⅜ by 28 ½ in. 56.8 by 72.4 cm.

Executed in 1959.


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同途樂藝:瑪西婭與史丹利・甘堡伉儷收藏,特呈現代大師紙本傑作

羅伯特・馬瑟韋爾

1915 - 1991年

《西班牙共和國輓歌第59號》


油彩及水粉布紋紙

22 ⅜ x 28 ½ 英寸;56.8 x 72.4 公分

1959年作

Please note there is an Irrevocable Bid on this lot.
Private Collection, New York (acquired directly from the artist)
Sotheby Parke Bernet New York, 10 November 1986, lot 16 (consigned by the above)
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner
Jürgen Claus, "Robert Motherwell–Grundtypen Seines Werkes," Das Kunstwerk 8, no. 18, February 1965, p. 8, illustrated (installed in Motherwell's East 94th Street studio)
Robert C. Hobbs, Motherwell's Concern with Death in Painting: An Investigation of His Elegies to the Spanish Republic, Including an Examination of His Philosophical and Methodological Considerations, Ph.D., dissertation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1975, pl. 26, p. 241, illustrated
Exh. Cat., Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, American Art at Mid-Century: The Subjects of the Artist, 1978, p. 113 (text)
Jack Flam, Katy Rogers and Tim Clifford, eds., Robert Motherwell A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941-1991, Volume 3: Collages and Paintings on Paper and Paperboard, New Haven, 2012, no. W94, p. 448, illustrated in color