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From an Important European Collection

Robert Motherwell

Elegy (for Salvador Allende)

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150,000 - 200,000 EUR

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Description

From an Important European Collection

Robert Motherwell

1915 - 1991

Elegy (for Salvador Allende)


signed and dated Sept. 75 (upper right); signed, titled and dated 1975 (on the reverse)

acrylic and paper collage on canvasboard

181,5 x 91 cm; 71 ½ x 35 ⅞ in.

Executed in 1975.

Turske Fine Art, Zurich

Private Collection, Switzerland (acquired from the above in 1980)

Antoine Helwaser Gallery, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner in 2011

Houston, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Robert Motherwell, April - May 1976 (titled Chilean Collage #1)

Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne, Robert Motherwell: choix de peintures et de collages, 1941-1977, juin - septembre 1977

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Robert Motherwell: Paintings and Collages from 1941 to the present, January - March 1978, no. 43

Storrs, The William Benton Museum of Art, The University of Connecticut, Robert Motherwell And Black, March - May 1979, no. 77, pp. 105-107

Florian Rodari, Le collage: papiers collés, papiers déchirés, papiers découpés, Geneva 1988, p. 132, illustrated in colour

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/London 2012, no. C528, p. 251, illustrated in colour