Window over Madrid

Artist Robert Motherwell American, 1915–1991

Date1974

MediumAcrylic on canvas

Dimensions90 x 120 1/4 in. (228.6 x 305.4 cm)
Frame: 91 1/4 x 121 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (231.8 x 308.6 x 6.4 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest) and Arthur Leroy and Lila Fisher Caldwell, by exchange, and Gift of the Dedalus Foundation, Inc.

Object number98.11.2

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ProvenanceCreated Greenwich, CT, 1974; collection of the artist; estate of the artist, 1991; transferred to Dedalus Foundation, New York [1]; sold to NCMA, 1998.

[1] Archive #P74-2777
Published References"Museum Acquires Five Important Works." North Carolina Museum of Art Preview and Calendar of Events (March/April 1999), briefly discussed 10.

Jack Flam, Katy Rogers, and Tim Clifford, Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941–1991, Vol. 2, Paintings on Canvas and Panel (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012), cat. P788, illus. (color).

Jonathan David Fineberg, Modern Art at the Border of Mind and Brain (Omaha: University of Nebraska Press, 2015), illus.Exhibition History
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