Property from a Prestigious Private Collection
Robert Motherwell
Elegy Mural Study
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November 19, 11:58 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 400,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from a Prestigious Private Collection
Robert Motherwell
1915 - 1991
Elegy Mural Study
signed with the artist's initials and dated 86 (upper left); signed and dated 1986 (on the reverse)
acrylic and graphite on canvas board
5 ½ by 15 ¾ in.
14 by 40 cm.
Executed in 1976-86.
Dedalus Foundation, New York
Private Collection, Malibu (acquired from the above in 2001)
Sotheby's New York, 13 May 2010, lot 173 (consigned by the above)
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above in July 2011 by the present owner
New York, William Ehrlich Gallery, Small Paintings, May - June 1979 (in earlier state)
New York, Dominique Lévy Gallery, Robert Motherwell: Elegy to the Spanish Republic, November 2015 - January 2016, no. 11, p. 63, illustrated in color
Jack Flam, Katy Rogers and Tim Clifford, eds., Robert Motherwell, Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941-1991: Volume Two: Paintings on Canvas and Panel, New Haven and London 2012, no. P1122, p. 538, illustrated in color
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