Robert Kiley

Large Robert Kiley Painting

Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Cleve Gray (American, 1918-2004) Marking(s); notes: signed Materials: acrylic on canvas Dimensions (H, W, D): 50"h, 65"w; 51"h, 66.5"w frame Addition...

Artist/Designer: Cleve Gray (American, 1918-2004) Marking(s); notes: signed; 1976 Materials: acrylic on canvas Dimensions: 82″h, 81″w; 83″h, 83″w frame Additional Information: Work i...

Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Robert Kiley (American, 1924-1996) Marking(s); notes: signed artist's label verso, marking(s); 1990 Materials: acrylic on l...

Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Robert Kiley (American, 1924-1996) Marking(s); notes: signed artist's label verso, marking(s); 1990 Materials: acrylic on l...

'Daybreak and Dusk'. Original Artwork. Framed ready to hang _________________ I feel the autumnal whispers in the wind, gently carrying summer away with the first dry leaves. There i...

'Just for One Day'. Original Artwork. Framed ready to hang _________________ Such sensual fullness, intoxicating in it's momentary glamour, for tomorrow the petals will fall softly l...

Something More, Original Abstract Painting, 2020 Abstract Painting on Paper Artist Commentary: The long name for this one is 'Tearing Through the Sky in Wonder'. This one is very ...

Robert Motherwell Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 163 1979-82 Acrylic and Conte crayon on board 59.1 x 74.3 cms (23 1/4 x 29 1/4 ins) RM14159 P1061 Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 163 is a fine example of Robert Motherwell’s most acclaimed body of work, the Elegies to the Spanish Republic. As important as Barnett Newman’s zips and Jackson Pollock’s drips for their revolutionary contribution to art history, the Elegies are Motherwell’s most extensive series; he executed over 140 paintings using this motif, beginning in 1948 until his death in 1991. Nearly every major museum collection, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, have in their permanent collection an Elegy to the Spanish Republic. Intended to be read as a lamentation or funeral song after the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), Motherwell’s Elegies to the Spanish Republic are a lyrical and poetic memorial to the immense human loss and suffering endured during these harrowing years. Motherwell was a young student of twenty-one when the horrors of the Spanish Civil War commenced in 1936, and he would later reflect that it was the most “moving political event” of his youth. In 1939, the Spanish Civil War concluded with the fall of Spain’s democratically elected socialist government, which was deposed by a fascist coalition led by dictator Francisco Franco, whose dictatorship would persist until 1975. In 1948 nearly a decade after the end of the Spanish Civil War, Motherwell created his first Elegy with a small drawing to accompany a poem by Harold Rosenberg. Over the next four decades, Motherwell would pursue this same structural and thematic motif relentlessly; taken as a whole, the Elegies confirm the resounding impact that this war had on the young artist, and indeed stand as a powerful monument to the overwhelming loss during and in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. Motherwell stated: “I meant the word 'elegy' in the title. I was twenty-one in 1936, when the Spanish Civil War began…The Spanish Civil War was even more to my generation than Vietnam was to be thirty years later to its generation, and should not be forgotten, even though la guerre est finie.” (David Craven in Joan M...