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Robert Motherwell, “Untitled” (1976), 

Ink on paper, 7 × 10 inches, 

Janie C. Lee Collection.

Artwork © 2022 Dedalus Foundation, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.

Photo courtesy Paul Hester

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ROBERT MOTHERWELL UNTITLED 1943 Ink, gouache, watercolor, pastel, pasted colored papers and printed paper on Japanese paper, mounted on paperboard

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Motherwell | Artwork

Robert Motherwell artwork of the week | Spanish Elegy with Marine Blue, 1977, in the exhibition Between Life and Death: Robert Motherwell's Elegies in Bay Area Collections at the de Young Museum →

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March 14-April 30, 1957  

The Voyage and Personage, with Yellow Ochre and White are included in the exhibition Recent American Acquisitions at The Museum of Modern Art  →

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__________ Image: Robert Motherwell, The Voyage, 1948-49. © Dedalus Foundation, Inc./Licensed by VAGA. New York, NY

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Autumn 1956  

Motherwell creates a series of new collages. Several of the works include fragments of poems by Paul Eluard, which Motherwell is reading at this time  →

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__________ Image: Robert Motherwell, Yellow Envelope, 1956/ca. 1965. © Dedalus Foundation, Inc./Licensed by VAGA. New York, NY

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Summer 1956  

Robert Motherwell returns to Provincetown and purchases a house at 622 Commercial Street with a small inheritance from Betty's mother.  →

August 11, 1956  

Jackson Pollock dies in a car accident in Springs, Long Island. In the weeks that follow Motherwell paints Monument to Jackson Pollock.  →

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__________ Image: Robert Motherwell, Monument to Jackson Pollock, 1956. © Dedalus Foundation, Inc./Licensed by VAGA. New York, NY

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April 1-20, 1957 

Elegy to the Spanish Republic XXXIV is exhibited in 8 Americans at the Janis Gallery. Seymour H. Knox buys the painting and donates it to the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo →

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__________ Image: Elegy to the Spanish Republic XXXIV, 1953-54 © Dedalus Foundation, Inc./Licensed by VAGA. New York, NY

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Motherwell | Artwork

Robert Motherwell artwork of the week | Pink Nude with Bowed Head, 1958, in the exhibition Robert Motherwell and the New York School at Hunter at The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College →

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