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Robert Motherwell

Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 130

Auction Closed

May 17, 12:56 AM GMT

Estimate

4,000,000 - 6,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Robert Motherwell

1915 - 1991


Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 130

signed R. Motherwell (lower left); inscribed #130 (on the reverse)

acrylic on canvas

97 ⅞ by 120 ⅛ in. 243.5 by 305 cm.

Executed in 1974-75.

Irma and Norman Braman, Miami (acquired directly from the artist in January 1981)
Acquired from the above in 2013 by the present owner 
Elisa Turner, "The Bramans: The Happy Look," ARTnews, vol. 88, no. 3, March 1989, p. 108 (titled Elegy to the Spanish Republic)
Jack Flam, Katy Rogers and Tim Clifford, eds., Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné 1941-1991, vol. II, New Haven, 2012, no. P817, pp. 404-05, illustrated in color
Natalia Rachlin, “A London gallery celebrates the centennial of the birth of Robert Motherwell with a survey of the artist’s major works,” Architectural Digest, 31 December 2014, online, illustrated in color
Tampa Museum of Art, Icons of Postwar Art: Painting and Sculpture from the Norman and Irma Braman Collection, 1984-85, no. 31, pp. 19 and 48, illustrated in color (titled Elegy to the Spanish Republic)
London, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Robert Motherwell: A Centenary Survey of Major Works, 2015
New York, Dominique Lévy, Robert Motherwell: Elegy to the Spanish Republic, 2015-16, no. 70, pp. 50-51, illustrated in color
London, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Robert Motherwell: Abstract Expressionism, 2016
Seoul, Barakat Contemporary, Robert Motherwell: Elegy, 2019