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Art For Sale
Artist: David Drebin
Artist: Robert Motherwell
David Drebin - Beach Shower, Lightbox, Photography 2005, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: FEMME FATALE All available sizes & editions for each size of this photograph: 30" X 40.1"- Edition of 10 48" X 64"- Edition of 7 48" X 64" - Edition of 3; Lightbox In a uniq...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Paper, C Print, Digital

David Drebin - Balloons, Lightbox, Photography, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: FEMME FATALE All available sizes & editions for each size of this photograph: 30" X 37.5"- Edition of 10 48" X 60"- Edition of 7 48" X 60" - Edition of 3; Lightbox After gra...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

C Print, Digital

David Drebin - Balloons, Photography 2018, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: FEMME FATALE All available sizes & editions for each size of this photograph: 30" X 37.5"- Edition of 10 48" X 60"- Edition of 7 48" X 60" - Edition of 3; Lightbox After gra...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

C Print, Digital

David Drebin - Art Angels, Photography 2018, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: FEMME FATALE All available sizes & editions for each size of this photograph: 30" X 37.5"- Edition of 10 48" X 60"- Edition of 7 48" X 60" - Edition of 3; Lightbox After gra...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

C Print, Digital

David Drebin - All Aboard, Photography 2018, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: FEMME FATALE All available sizes & editions for each size of this photograph: 30" X 37.5"- Edition of 10 48" X 60"- Edition of 7 48" X 60" - Edition of 3; Lightbox After gra...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

C Print

David Drebin - Apollo, Lightbox, Photography 2018, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: FEMME FATALE All available sizes & editions for each size of this photograph: 30" X 37.5"- Edition of 10 48" X 60"- Edition of 7 48" X 60" - Edition of 3; Lightbox After gra...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

C Print

David Drebin - Apollo, Photography 2018, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: FEMME FATALE All available sizes & editions for each size of this photograph: 30" X 37.5"- Edition of 10 48" X 60"- Edition of 7 48" X 60" - Edition of 3; Lightbox After gra...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

C Print

David Drebin - All Aboard, Lightbox, Photography 2018, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: FEMME FATALE All available sizes & editions for each size of this photograph: 30" X 37.5"- Edition of 10 48" X 60"- Edition of 7 48" X 60" - Edition of 3; Lightbox After gra...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

C Print

David Drebin - Airplane Lover, Lightbox, Photography 2018, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: FEMME FATALE All available sizes & editions for each size of this photograph: 48" X 48"- Edition of 10 60" X 60"- Edition of 7 60" X 60" - Edition of 3; Lightbox After gradu...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

C Print

David Drebin - Airplane Lover, Photography 2018, Printed After
Located in Greenwich, CT
Series: FEMME FATALE All available sizes & editions for each size of this photograph: 48" X 48"- Edition of 10 60" X 60"- Edition of 7 60" X 60" - Edition of 3; Lightbox After gradu...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

C Print

America La France Variations III
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) is one of the essential American abstract painters who radically defined post-war abstraction in New York City. Today, his work appears in museum colle...
Category

1970s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Beau Geste pour Lucrèce
Located in New York, NY
The complete suite of six individual, lyrical lithographs, each hand-signed and numbered, each measuring 22 x 15 in (56 x 38 cm), unframed, from the edition of 100 with 15 AP’s. Avai...
Category

20th Century Art

Materials

Lithograph

Summer Light Series: Pauillac, No.2
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell Summer Light Series: Pauillac, No.2 1973 Lithograph, screenprint, pochoir, and collage, Edition of 55 91.4 x 45.7 cms (36 x 18 ins) RM12795
Category

1970s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

BALLOONS OVER NEW YORK DIAMOND DUST
Located in PARIS, FR
Series: Diamond Dust All available sizes & editions for each size of this photograph: 39" X 30"- Edition of 10 37.5" X 49"- Edition of 7 Diamond Dust Collection Diamond Dust is ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Glitter, C Print

Three Poems: Spanish Elegy
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1988, this lithograph and chine appliqué is hand-signed by Robert Motherwell (Aberdeen, 1915 - Provincetown, 1991) in pencil in the lower right margin and is numbered from the edition of 50 in pencil in the lower right margin. About the Framing: Framed to museum-grade, conservation standards, Robert Motherwell Three Poems...
Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

America La-France Variations IX
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Created in 1984, this lithograph and collage on paper is hand-signed by Robert Motherwell (Aberdeen, 1915 - Provincetown, 1991) in pencil in the lower right margin. Numbered from the...
Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Lithograph

DAVID DREBIN Girl in orange dress (Diamond Dust) - Last available!
Located in New York City, NY
DAVID DREBIN Diamond Dust series 39 x 59 inches (100 x 150 cm) Edition of 7 also available in: 31 x 46.5 inches (80 x 120 cm) Edition of 10 Chromogenic Print with Diamond Dust Mo...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Glitter, C Print

DAVID DREBIN Diamond crusher (Diamond Dust) - Last available editions
Located in New York City, NY
DAVID DREBIN Diamond Dust series 39 x 49 inches (100 x 125 cm) Edition of 7 also available in: 31 x 39 inches (80 x 100 cm) Edition of 10 Chromogenic Print with Diamond Dust Moun...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

C Print, Glitter

DAVID DREBIN Me and me (Diamond Dust) - Last available editions
Located in New York City, NY
DAVID DREBIN Diamond Dust series 39 x 49 inches (100 x 125 cm) Edition of 7 also available in: 31 x 39 inches (80 x 100 cm) Edition of 10 Chromogenic Print with Diamond Dust Moun...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

C Print, Glitter

DAVID DREBIN Waiting for the call (Diamond Dust) - Last available editions
Located in New York City, NY
DAVID DREBIN Diamond Dust series 39 x 49 inches (100 x 125 cm) Edition of 7 also available in: 31 x 39 inches (80 x 100 cm) Edition of 10 Chromogenic Print with Diamond Dust Moun...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

C Print, Glitter

DAVID DREBIN The great beauty (Diamond Dust) - Last available editions
Located in New York City, NY
DAVID DREBIN Diamond Dust series 39 x 59 inches (100 x 150 cm) Edition of 7 also available in: 31 x 46.5 inches (80 x 120 cm) Edition of 10 Chromogenic Print with Diamond Dust Mo...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

C Print, Glitter

DAVID DREBIN Wheels and heels (Diamond Dust) - Last available editions
Located in New York City, NY
DAVID DREBIN Diamond Dust series 39 x 59 inches (100 x 150 cm) Edition of 7 also available in: 31 x 46.5 inches (80 x 120 cm) Edition of 10 Chromogenic Print with Diamond Dust Mo...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Glitter, C Print

DAVID DREBIN Ultimatum city (Diamond Dust) - Last available editions
Located in New York City, NY
DAVID DREBIN Diamond Dust series 39 x 59 inches (100 x 150 cm) Edition of 7 also available in: 31 x 46.5 inches (80 x 120 cm) Edition of 10 Chromogenic Print with Diamond Dust Mo...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Glitter, C Print

DAVID DREBIN Sleepless in New York (Diamond Dust) - Last available editions
Located in New York City, NY
DAVID DREBIN Diamond Dust series 39 x 59 inches (100 x 150 cm) Edition of 7 also available in: 31 x 46.5 inches (80 x 120 cm) Edition of 10 Chromogenic Print with Diamond Dust Mo...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Glitter, C Print

DAVID DREBIN Love sparkle (Diamond Dust) - Last available editions
Located in New York City, NY
DAVID DREBIN Diamond Dust series 39 x 59 inches (100 x 150 cm) Edition of 7 also available in: 31 x 46.5 inches (80 x 120 cm) Edition of 10 Chromogenic Print with Diamond Dust Mo...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Glitter, C Print

DAVID DREBIN Golden eye (Diamond Dust) - Last available editions
Located in New York City, NY
DAVID DREBIN Diamond Dust series 39 x 59 inches (100 x 150 cm) Edition of 7 also available in: 31 x 46.5 inches (80 x 120 cm) Edition of 10 Chromogenic Print with Diamond Dust Mo...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Glitter, C Print

DAVID DREBIN Lips and bubbles (Diamond Dust) - Last available editions
Located in New York City, NY
DAVID DREBIN Diamond Dust series 39 x 59 inches (100 x 150 cm) Edition of 7 also available in: 31 x 46.5 inches (80 x 120 cm) Edition of 10 Chromogenic Print with Diamond Dust Mo...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Glitter, C Print

DAVID DREBIN Golden dream (Diamond Dust) - Last available editions
Located in New York City, NY
DAVID DREBIN Diamond Dust series 39 x 59 inches (100 x 150 cm) Edition of 7 also available in: 31 x 46.5 inches (80 x 120 cm) Edition of 10 Chromogenic Print with Diamond Dust Mo...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Glitter, C Print

DAVID DREBIN Escape to Paris (Diamond Dust) - Last available editions
Located in New York City, NY
DAVID DREBIN Diamond Dust series 39 x 59 inches (100 x 150 cm) Edition of 7 also available in: 31 x 46.5 inches (80 x 120 cm) Edition of 10 Chromogenic Print with Diamond Dust Mo...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Glitter, C Print

DAVID DREBIN Girl in orange dress (Diamond Dust) - Last available!
Located in New York City, NY
DAVID DREBIN Diamond Dust series 39 x 59 inches (100 x 150 cm) Edition of 7 also available in: 31 x 46.5 inches (80 x 120 cm) Edition of 10 Chromogenic Print with Diamond Dust Mo...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Glitter, C Print

Palo Alto
Located in New York, NY
Created by Robert Motherwell in 1978, Palo Alto is an original lithograph in colors on Arches 88 wove paper measuring 36 x 24 in. (91.4 x 61 cm), unframed. Hand-signed in pencil, th...
Category

20th Century Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Elegy Sketch
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell Elegy Sketch 1980-ca. 1984 Acrylic on canvas board 15 x 29.5 cms (5 7/8 x 11 5/8 ins) RM-P80-2500 P1008 An early version of this work was photographed in 1980 (Sloman photo no. 1217). Studio photographs show that Motherwell modified the black forms and added the white lines sometime around 1984, without changing the overall composition. Exhibited: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Robert Motherwell, 1984, no. 106. Manny Silverman Gallery...
Category

1980s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Black Open
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell Black Open 1973 Acrylic on canvas 182.9 x 91.4 cms (72 x 36 ins) RM9611 P735 Motherwell's fascination with black started when he was wo...
Category

1970s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Open No. 45: In Blue with Brown
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) Open No. 45: In Blue with Brown 1969 Acrylic and charcoal on canvas 55.9 x 71.1 cms (22 x 28 ins) RM9741 P447 Exhibited: Art Galleries, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Awards, 1970, no. 55. Galerie Templon, Paris, Robert Motherwell Open...
Category

1960s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Charcoal, Acrylic

Alberti Suite No. 8
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell Alberti Suite No. 8 1970 Acrylic on canvas 101.6 x 75.6 cms (40 x 29 3/4 ins) RM9811 P526 One of the several variants Motherwell painted within the Open series. I...
Category

1970s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Dr. Zhivago's Country Study
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell Dr. Zhivago's Country Study 1975 Acrylic on canvas board 14 x 45.7 cms (5 1/2 x 18 ins) RM9816 P853 Recto, upper left: Motherwell \ 75 Verso: "Dr Zhivago's Country...
Category

1970s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Untitled (Open in Yellow, Black and Blue)
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell Untitled (Open in Yellow, Black and Blue) 1970 Acrylic and charcoal on canvas board 25.4 x 61 cms (10 x 24 ins) RM9819 P588 Signed lower right (recto) Artist's studio number P74-290 Provenance: Dedalus Foundation, New York...
Category

1970s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Charcoal, Acrylic

Untitled (Red Open)
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell Untitled (Red Open) ca. 1970 Acrylic and charcoal on canvas board 17.8 x 22.8 cms (7 x 9 ins) RM9923 P575 Artist's studio number P71-286 Signed (verso) Provenance...
Category

1970s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Charcoal, Acrylic

Untitled (Ochre Open)
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) Untitled (Ochre Open) 1972 Acrylic on Upson board 60.6 x 24.5 cms (23 7/8 x 9 5/8 ins) RM9997 P666 Recto, upper right: RM \ 72 Verso not signed, not da...
Category

1970s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic, Board

Shem the Penman #18
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell Shem the Penman #18 1983 Acrylic and charcoal on canvas 25.4 x 35.5 cms (10 x 13 3/4 ins) RM10044 P1068 Signed upper left and on reverse. Provenance: Dedalus Foun...
Category

1980s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Charcoal, Acrylic

Open Untitled (Yellow)
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell Open Untitled (Yellow) 1981 Acrylic and charcoal on canvas 30.5 x 40.6 cms (12 x 16 ins) RM10045 P1019 Recto upper left: RM Verso not signed,not dated Artist's stu...
Category

1980s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Charcoal, Acrylic

Great Wall of China No. 4
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) Great Wall of China No. 4 1971 Acrylic and charcoal on canvas 152.4 x 101.6 cms (60 x 40 ins) RM10101 P617 This work is part of the artist's Great Wall of China series, of which there are only five paintings, all of which are in private hands. Painted on a traditionally primed canvas, it is an exploration of the tension between foreground and background. The U-shaped forms in this series of paintings are closely related to the paintings in Motherwell's Open series of which there are a greater number of paintings and drawings. Great Wall of China series refer to a Franz Kafka short story about the Chinese landmark, which certainly served as a dividing line in its time, and perhaps also to contemporaneous events involving China, such as Henry Kissinger...
Category

1970s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Charcoal, Acrylic

Premonition Open, with Flesh over Grey
Located in London, GB
Premonition Open, with Flesh over Grey, 1974, belongs to an extended series of works that came to be called the Opens and which came about by a happy accident. Leaning a finished can...
Category

1970s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Charcoal, Acrylic Polymer, Graphite

Two Figures No. 12
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell Two Figures No. 12 1958 Oil on paperboard 19.1 x 24.1 cms (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 ins) RM12376 W41 Motherwell painted this work in Saint-Jean-de-Luz during the summer of 19...
Category

1950s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Untitled
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) Untitled 1990 Acrylic and coloured pencil on panel 40.6 x 50.8 cms (16 x 20 ins) RM13143 P1195 The composition of this painting is based on the left ...
Category

1990s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic, Panel, Color Pencil

Shem the Penman #19
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell Shem the Penman #19 1983 Acrylic and charcoal on canvas 25.4 x 35.6 cms (10 x 14 ins) RM13642 P1069 Recto, upper left: RM Verso: R. Motherwell \ 1983 Verso (on b...
Category

1980s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Charcoal, Acrylic

The Studio
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell The Studio 1987 Acrylic and charcoal on canvas 152.4 x 182.9 cms (60 x 72 ins) RM13966 P1140 When Motherwell made The Studio, in 1987, he was nearing the end of an...
Category

1980s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Charcoal, Acrylic

Open No. 126: In Beige with Blue
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) Open No. 126: In Beige with Blue 1970 Acrylic on canvas 61 x 76.2 cms (24 x 30 ins) RM13967 P533 The dedication on the verso of this painting is to the artist and editor Alexander Liberman (1912-1999) and his wife Tatiana (1906-1991). Signed, titled, dated twice 1970 and inscribed Merry Xmas to Tatiana & Alex Liberman from their friend Bob Motherwell on the stretcher. Provenance: Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Liberman, New York (gift of the artist). High Museum of Art, Atlanta (gift of the above in 1991). Sotheby's New York, 14 November 2012, lot 138. Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London (acquired at the above sale). Exhibited: Galerie Templon, Paris, Robert Motherwell Open...
Category

1970s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 163
Located in London, GB
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...
Category

1980s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Conté, Acrylic, Board

Two Figures No. 7
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell Two Figures No.7 1958 Oil on paperboard mounted on board 18.9 x 23.9 cms (7 7/16 x 9 7/16 ins) RM14236 W36 Motherwell painted this work in Saint-Jean-de-Luz during...
Category

1950s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Royal Dirge
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell Royal Dirge 1972 Acrylic on canvas 182.2 x 137.2 cms (71 3/4 x 54 ins) RM14402 P705 Signed and dated 72 upper left (recto) Signed, titled and dated 27 October 1972 (verso) Artist's studio number P72-5207 Provenance: Lawrence Rubin Gallery, New York. Solomon Byron Smith, Lake Forest (acquired in 1973). Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (bequest from the above in 1980). Christie's, New York, 9 November 2011. Galerie Sho Contemporary Art, Tokyo. Private collection, acquired from the above. Sotheby's New York, 14 November 2013. Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 2013 . Exhibited: Galerie Templon, Paris, Robert Motherwell Open...
Category

1970s Art

Materials

Acrylic

Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 60
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 60 1960 Oil on paperboard 17.8 x 23.8 cms (7 x 9 3/8 ins) RM14624 W111 Provenance: Harriet Mnuchin Weiner, 1961. Christie's, New ...
Category

1960s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Homage to Catalonia
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell Homage to Catalonia 1985 Acrylic on canvas 61 x 91.4 cms (24 x 36 ins) RM14749 P1116 This painting was begun in 1985 as a work from the Hollow Men series. By 1986 ...
Category

1980s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Balloons Over Paris Diamond Dust
Located in PARIS, FR
Series: Diamond Dust All available sizes & editions for each size of this photograph: 25" X 67"- Edition of 10 35" X 84"- Edition of 7 Diamond Dust Collection Diamond Dust is a ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Glitter, C Print

Tokyo Nights by David Drebin
Located in New York City, NY
David Drebin 30 x 72 inches Edition of 10 C-Print Unframed
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

C Print

Luxembourg Gardens, Paris by David Drebin
Located in New York City, NY
David Drebin 30 x 72 inches Edition of 10 C-Print
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

C Print

Rain in Berlin by David Drebin
Located in New York City, NY
David Drebin 30 x 72 inches Edition of 10 C-Print Unframed
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

C Print

Streets of Paris by David Drebin
Located in New York City, NY
David Drebin 30 x 72 inches Edition of 10 C-Print Unframed
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

C Print

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