LOT DETAILS

Materials:

acrylic on canvas

Measurements:

90.00 in. (228.60 cm.) (height) by 120.12 in. (305.10 cm.) (width)

Markings:

incised with the artist's signature and date “Motherwell 49/71” lower right; further signed, titled and dated "At Five in the Afternoon (large version) R. Motherwell Summer 1971" on the reverse

Exhibited:

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Robert Motherwell: Recent Paintings, June 16 - August 6, 1972, no. 1 Mexico City, Museo de Arte Moderno, Robert Motherwell: Retrospectiva del gran pintor Norteamericano, March - May, 1975, no. 6, n.p. (illustrated) New York, Knoedler & Company, Robert Motherwell & Black, February 13 - March 12, 1981, no. 11 New York, Knoedler & Company, Robert Motherwell: At Five in the Afternoon, December 7, 1994 – January 5, 1995, no. 4

Literature:

Marjorie Welish, Robert Motherwell: Bridging the Generations," Art International, vol. 16, no. 10, December 1972, p. 44 (illustrated) Juan Acha, Robert Motherwell," Plural, 4, no. 8, May 6, 1975, p. 82 Jonathon Fineberg, Death and Maternal Love: Psychological Speculations on Robert Motherwell's Art," Artforum, vol. 17, no. 1, September 1978, pp. 53-56 (illustrated in progress, p. 57) E.A. Carmean, Jr., "Robert Motherwell: The Elegies to the Spanish Republic," American Art at Mid-Century: The Subjects of the Artist, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 98 Alwynne Mackie, Robert Motherwell," Art/Talk: Theory and Practice in Abstract Expressionism, New York, 1989, p. 187 E.C. Braun-Munk, Unfettered Art," Vogue Decoration, no. 30, February-March, 1991, pp. 70, 74, 76 (installation view illustrated) Pepe Karmel, Motherwell Painted Art from the Gut but Used His Head," The New York Times, December 30, 1994, p. 3 Robert Motherwell, exh. cat. Galleria d'Arte il Gabbiano, Rome, 2008, n.p. (illustrated in progress) Jack Flam, Katy Rogers and Tim Clifford, eds., Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941-1999, vol. I, New Haven, 2012, fig. 135, pp. 142, 231, 259 (illustrated, p. 141) Jack Flam, Katy Rogers and Tim Clifford, eds., Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941-1999, vol. II, New Haven, 2012, no. P647, pp. 331-332 (illustrated) Jen Renzi, "Inside Holly Hunt's Modern Apartment on Chicago's Gold Coast," Architectural Digest, March 8, 2016 (illustrated online)

Provenance:

The Artist Knoedler & Company, New York Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1981