Robert Motherwell
Elegy to the Spanish Republic CII
1964
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Robert Motherwell
Elegy to the Spanish Republic CII
1964
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, 80 × 120 in. (203.2 × 304.8 cm.)
Framed: 83 3/4 × 124 × 3 1/8 in. (212.7 × 315 × 7.9 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Marilyn S. Meyerhoff, Palm Beach and Baltimore
Object Number
2004.186
The Baltimore Museum of Art by partial and promised gift, 2004; Mrs. Marilyn S. Meyerhoff, Owings Mills, Maryland; Sotheby Parke Berenet, New Yok; Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Mayer, Winnetka, Illinois; Marlborough Gerson Gallery, New York
Museum of Modern Art, NY, "Motherwell", 1965
Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin, "Motherwell", no. 80
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1968
Darsie Alexander, "Robert Motherwell: Meanings of Abstraction,"Baltimore Museum of Art, May 20, 2006 - July 30, 2006.
Baltimore Museum of Art, "Crosscurrents: Works from the Contemporary Collection," Gallery 07, February 26 - June 2025.
Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin, "Motherwell", no. 80
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1968
Darsie Alexander, "Robert Motherwell: Meanings of Abstraction,"Baltimore Museum of Art, May 20, 2006 - July 30, 2006.
Baltimore Museum of Art, "Crosscurrents: Works from the Contemporary Collection," Gallery 07, February 26 - June 2025.
"Important Post-War and Contemporary Art", Sale no. 3426, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York. 10/26/1972, Lot 14.
"Bringing Art to Life," The Baltimore Museum of Art, Annual Report 2005, no. 6, ill.
BMA Today, Spring 2006, ill. p. 6.
Lillian Burgunder, "Motherwell's Elegy to the Spanish Republic C11." Newsletter of the Print, Drawing & Photograph Society (Spring 2006), illus. p. 17.
Jack Flam, et. al,. Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonne, 1941-1991, Yale Univeristy Press, 2012, #102
Inscribed: Signed with initials and dated '65
Artist
Robert Motherwell
1914–1990
born Aberdeen, WA 1915; died Provincetown, MA 1991
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