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Robert Motherwell — Spanish Elegy XIV (Palamos)
Robert Motherwell

Spanish Elegy XIV (Palamos)

1953

Spanish Elegy XIV (Palamos) is an abstract composition created with oil and graphite on paperboard in 1953. The work combines gestural marks and forms characteristic of Motherwell's elegiac series, which mourned the Spanish Civil War. The piece exemplifies the artist's synthesis of abstraction with political and emotional content.

Medium
oil and graphite on paperboard

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May 18, 2022

Estimate: $700,000$1,000,000

Lot 144

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Robert Motherwell, Spanish Elegy XIV (Palamos), 1953

Spanish Elegy XIV (Palamos) is an abstract composition created with oil and graphite on paperboard in 1953. The work combines gestural marks and forms characteristic of Motherwell's elegiac series, which mourned the Spanish Civil War. The piece exemplifies the artist's synthesis of abstraction with political and emotional content.

Medium
oil and graphite on paperboard
Year
1953
Seen at
Sotheby's, New York, London, Hong Kong, Paris

Related themes

Oil And Graphite, American, Post-War Modern, Abstract Expressionism, Elegiac, Gestural, Political Commentary, 1950s

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Collected by

Alex Capecelatro, Hamilton Selway Gallery, Kyle Stewart