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Robert Motherwell Basque

Untitled (Red) /// Abstract Expressionism Robert Motherwell Screenprint Minimal
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Robert Motherwell (American, 1915-1991) Title: "Untitled (Red)" Portfolio: London Series I
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Screen

Untitled (Basque #5)
By Robert Motherwell
Located in New York, NY
Robert Motherwell’s iconic ‘Basque Suite’ demonstrates the artist’s innovative and painterly
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Prints and Multiples

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Screen

Basque Suite #2
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made
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1970s Abstract Prints

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Screen

The Basque Suite #2
By Robert Motherwell
Located in New York, NY
/150 in pencil by Motherwell. Printed by Kelpra Studio, London. Published by Marlborough Graphics, Inc
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

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Color, Screen

The Basque Suite: Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
lower right; signed "Motherwell" in screen lower right Inscriptions: Numbered in pencil lower left or
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

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Color, Screen

The Basque Suite #10
By Robert Motherwell
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color screenprint on J. B. Green paper. Initialed and numbered 115/150 in pencil. Printed by Kelpra Studio, London, with the ink stamp verso. Published...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

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Color, Screen

The Basque Suite: Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Colour screenprint on J.B. Green paper 104.1 x 71.7 cms (41 x 28 1/4 ins) Edition of 150
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

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Color, Screen

The Basque Suite: Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Edition of 150 104.1 x 71.7 cms (41 x 28 1/4 ins)
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

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Screen

Baque Suite #7
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

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Screen

The Basque Suite: Untitled (ref. 86)
By Robert Motherwell
Located in New York, NY
Robert Motherwell The Basque Suite: Untitled (ref. 86), 1971 screenprint on J.B. Green paper, ed
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Screen

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Robert Motherwell Hand Signed Exhibition & Black Lithograph Poster Dance I, 1979
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"The Basque Suite: Untitled" Blue Limited Edition Motherwell Print
By Robert Motherwell
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The Basque Suite: Untitled (B-82)
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The Basque Suite: Untitled 1971, Robert Motherwell
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Located in Palm Desert, CA
, signed RM and signed in plate Motherwell. Framed in an archival lucite box. Print was made by Chris
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Robert Motherwell, The Basque Suite, Untitled Screen Print
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Stamford, CT
Robert Motherwell. The Basque Suite A: Untitled. From the Basque Suite produced in 1971. Screen
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Untitled (from Basque Suite)
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
right; signed "Motherwell" in screen upper left. Inscriptions:Numbered in pencil lower left or lower
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The Basque Suite: Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Screenprint on J.B. Green paper 104.1 x 71.7 cms (41 x 28 1/4 ins) Edition of 150
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The Basque Suite: Untitled
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The Basque Suite #1
By Robert Motherwell
Located in New York, NY
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The Basque Suite: Untitled, Signed and Numbered Silkscreen by Robert Motherwell
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The Basque Suite: Untitled, 1971, signed and numbered 105/150 silkscreen by Robert Motherwell
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The Basque Suite: Untitled (ref. 79)
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Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in New York, NY
This stunning display of simplicity and color by Robert Motherwell was created as an original
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Untitled No. 8
By Robert Motherwell
Located in New York, NY
One of the most experimental and courageous printmakers of the 20th century, Robert Motherwell
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Located in New York, NY
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Musical Instrument II Joiki II
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-Pijuan, Antoni Llena, Victor Mira, Robert Motherwell, Kenneth Noland, Perejaume, Albert Ràfols-Casamada
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Robert Motherwell Screenprint, Signed Edition
By Robert Motherwell
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
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The name of painter, printmaker and writer Robert Motherwell (1915–91) is often taken as synonymous with the New York School, whose name he coined. Motherwell was the youngest of this group of Abstract Expressionists working in art, dance, poetry and music in 1950s and '60s New York City, which included Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Philip Guston, Helen Frankenthaler and Mark Rothko.

Born in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1915, Motherwell had perhaps the broadest and best education of any of the New York School coterie, with an extensive background in philosophy, literature and art history. He earned a BA in philosophy in 1937 from Stanford University and was working toward a PhD in the subject at Harvard when he interrupted his studies for a yearlong trip to Europe, where he fell in love with European modernism.

After returning, in 1940 he enrolled Columbia to study art history. It was there that he met a group of exiled Parisian Surrealists, and encounter that proved influential on his style. Motherwell began to integrate the idea of “automatism” — unmediated gestures that reflect deeper psychological impulses — into his work, pioneering a new form of Abstract Expressionism that came to characterize the New York School.

Works like the 1967 Beside the Sea no. 45, an acrylic on canvas, and the 1966 lithograph New York International epitomize Motherwell’s use of simple shapes in boldly contrasting colors, executed in quick, gestural strokes that occasionally evoke figures, suggesting a latent narrative despite their obvious abstraction.

Throughout his career, Motherwell taught painting at Hunter College, in New York, and at Black Mountain College, in North Carolina, where his work influenced the likes of Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenberg and Kenneth Noland. His influence as one of the founding fathers of American Abstract Expressionism remains profound.

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During the 19th century, iconic artists, including Edvard Munch, Paul Cézanne, Georgiana Houghton and others, began exploring works based on shapes and colors. This was a departure from the academic conventions of European painting and would influence the rise of 20th-century abstraction and its pioneers, like Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian.

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