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Elegy Study
Elegy Study

Elegy Study

Artist Robert Motherwell American, 1915–1991
Date1978
MediumAcrylic and ink on paper
Dimensions13 7/8 x 16 3/4 in. (35.2 x 42.5 cm)
Frame: 22 3/8 x 25 x 1 5/8 in. (56.8 x 63.5 x 4.1 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Mary and Jim Patton
Object number2014.20.36
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceCreated Greenwich, CT, 1978; collection of the artist, Greenwich; Dedalus Foundation (estate of the artist), New York, 1991; [Knoedler & Co., New York]; Mary and James R. Patton Jr., Great Falls, VA, October 22, 2004; given to NCMA, 2014.
Published ReferencesJack Flam, Katy Rogers, and Tim Clifford, Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941–1991, Vol. 3 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), no. W533 (as Elegy Study), illus. (color) 596.
Exhibition HistoryProvincetown, MA, Long Point Gallery [group exhibition], August 1978, no. 10.

Houston, TX, Janie C. Lee Gallery, “Robert Motherwell: Drawings, a Retrospective, 1941–the present,” November–December, 1979, no. 111 (as Untitled).

New York, NY, Knoedler Co., “3 Classics: Motherwell, Frankenthaler, Stella,” September 9–October 30, 2004, no. 5.
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