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Elegy to the Spanish Republic XXXIV

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Robert Motherwell

American, 1915-1991

Elegy to the Spanish Republic XXXIV, 1953-1954

oil on canvas

support: 80 x 100 inches (203.2 x 254 cm); framed: 82 x 102 x 3 1/4 inches (208.28 x 259.08 x 8.26 cm)

Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1957

K1957:6

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Inscriptions

signature, undated / front, upper right / RM
signature, dated; inscription / on stretcher / Robert Motherwell 1953-4 ELEGY FOR THE SPANISH REPUBLIC XXXIV

Provenance

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, by 1957;
sold to the Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, with funds provided by Seymour H. Knox, Jr., January 24, 1957

Class

Paintings

Work Type

Oil painting

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