At Five in the Afternoon
Robert Motherwell
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Date:c.1949 -
Style:Abstract Expressionism -
Genre:abstract
At Five in the Afternoon
Robert Motherwell
At Five in the Afternoon began as a small pen and ink drawing that Motherwell composed in 1948 to accompany a poem by Harold Rosenberg. A year later, Motherwell reinvented the drawing as a small painting and renamed the work after a line in the poem "Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias," by Federico Garcia Lorca. This work acts as the first entry in Motherwell's Elegies to the Spanish Republic series and sets up a formal and aesthetic system that would define the entire series.
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