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Art For Sale
Artist: Robert Motherwell
Artist: Helen Frankenthaler
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
The Basque Suite: Untitled (ref. 86)
Located in New York, NY
Robert Motherwell
The Basque Suite: Untitled (ref. 86), 1971
screenprint on J.B. Green paper, ed. of 150
41 x 28 1/4 in. (104.1 x 71.8 cm)
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Screen
London Series II: Untitled (Orange/Pink)
Located in New York, NY
Robert Motherwell
London Series II: Untitled (Orange/Pink), 1971
screenprint on white J.B. Green mould-made Double Elephant paper, ed. of 150
28 1/2 x 41...
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Screen
London Series II: Untitled (Blue/Cream)
Located in New York, NY
Robert Motherwell
London Series II: Untitled (Blue/Cream), 1971
screenprint on white J.B. Green mould-made Double Elephant paper, ed. of 150
28 1/2 x 41 ...
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Screen
Untitled
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color monotype on cream wove paper. Signed, dated and dedicated in pencil by Motherwell. Dedicated to the art dealer and gallerist, Brooke Alexander.
Category
1970s Contemporary Art
Materials
Color, Monotype
Paroles peintes III: Untitled
Located in London, GB
Open-bite etching printed in dark, brownish black on fibrous Japan paper. Signed "R. Motherwell," or "Motherwell" in pencil, lower right. Numbered in pencil, lower right. Paper size:...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Etching
Octavio Paz Suite: Nocturne VIII
Located in London, GB
Lithograph and chine appliqué to Arches paper.
Siri Engberg and Joan Banach 'Robert Motherwell: The Complete Prints 1940-1991. Catalogue Raisonne', Walker Art Center and Hudson Hills...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled (Basque #5)
Located in New York, NY
Robert Motherwell’s iconic ‘Basque Suite’ demonstrates the artist’s innovative and painterly approach to printmaking. Designated as image number 5 in the suite, the artwork shown her...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Screen
Tribal Sign
Located in New York, NY
Tribal Sign, 1987
Signed and dated in pencil with publisher's blindstamp
Eleven color lithograph on mauve TGL handmade paper
Sheet: 24 x 18.5 inches
Frame: 33 x 27 inches
Edition 25 ...
Category
1980s Art
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Beau Geste I
Located in New York, NY
From a portfolio of six individual lithographs, each created as Robert Motherwell’s visualization of six poems by Marcelin Pleynet, Beau Geste I was printed in 1989 by Teluride Press...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Lithograph
London Series I: Untitled (Orange)
Located in New York, NY
Screenprint
Edition of 150
Category
1970s Art
Materials
Screen
Snow Pines
Located in New York, NY
2004
Thirty-four color Ukiyo-e woodcut printed from 16 woodblocks on Torinoko paper and mounted onto Fabriano Classico paper
Image/sheet: 37 1/2 x 26 inches
Edition of 65
Signed and ...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Open #125: Jeannie
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Open #125: Jeannie
1969
Acrylic and charcoal on canvasboard
76.2 x 50.8 cms (30 x 20 ins)
RM9796
P532
The title of this painting refers to Motherwell's elder daugh...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
Automatism No. 11
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Automatism No. 11
1965
Ink and oil on paper
67.3 x 61.6 cms (26 1/2 x 24 1/4 ins)
Part of the Beside the Sea series, a series of oil paintings influenced by Mother...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Ink, Oil
Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 110C
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 110C
1968
Acrylic and graphite on paper
15.2 x 20.3 cms (6 x 8 ins)
Robert Motherwell's Elegies series represent one of the iconic motifs of Abstract Expressionism. Based on a 1948 ink illustration the artist executed accompanying a Harold Rosenberg poem, “A Bird for every bird,” the drawing shows the hypnotically repetitive patterning of ovoids and vertical beams. The stark contrast of the black ink on white paper references the symbolic use of the color black by artists such as Goya, Manet and Matisse to convey death, loss, and tragedy. Motherwell was quite affected by the turbulence of the Spanish Civil War and alludes to the Spanish republic in his Elegies. Motherwell’s plumbing the depths of poetry, history, and primordial art in the Elegies is considered a hallmark of nascent Abstract Expressionist painting in its desire to "excavate" essential imagery of mankind.
Motherwell, who originally trained as a philosophy scholar and later became of the great editors of 20th century art documents, grasped very early on the crucial importance that in order to contribute meaningfully to the canon of modern art, one must create a principle of aesthetics. Through the surrealist concept of automatism, the artist finally found the creative principle that eventually governed his extraordinary artistic output and produced the Elegies, one of the most salient, immediate painterly images of 20th century abstract painting. In fact, he has alluded to the fact that each one of his Elegies begins as an automatic drawing, and certain shapes are then blocked to create the signature armature of the vertical bars and ovals. The Elegies seem to possess the power of an archetypal image, an image the mind already grasps on a subconscious level.
Motherwell's play of dualities of black and white as well as other dichotomies—the geometric versus the organic, chaos versus order, death versus life—was a condition of living through a tumultuous period in American history. During an interview, he vividly recalled the 1940s as the time when society was ordered by a set of contradictions. In Motherwell's Elegies, he not only discovered an incredibly elastic pictorial language that would communicate on multiple levels but also acknowledged these contradictions in a manner that would resonate in abstract form. The present work served as a model for a painting, Spanish Elegy...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic, Laid Paper, Graphite
Brasileira
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Brasileira
1975
Acrylic, graphite and printed paper collage on canvas laid on board
121 x 91 cms (47 5/8 x 35 7/8 ins)
Provenance:
Ace Gallery, Los Angeles
Doug...
Category
1970s Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
America - La France variations IV, 17/68 color lithograph with collage
Located in Three Oaks, MI
America-La France Variations IV 1984. Lithograph in colors with collage on Tyler Graphics Ltd. handmade paper. Signed in pencil Numbered 17/68 (there were also XVIII artist’s proofs ...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Lithograph
America - La France variations I, 46/70 color lithograph with collage
Located in Three Oaks, MI
America-La France Variations I 1983-4. Lithograph in colors with collage on Tyler Graphics Ltd. handmade paper. Signed in pencil Numbered 46/70 (there were also XVIII artist’s proofs...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled, by Robert Motherwell
Located in New York, NY
Created by the artist in 1975, Robert Motherwell’s, Untitled is an exceptional etching and aquatint, hand-signed in pencil, and numbered, measuring 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 60 cm), unfram...
Category
20th Century Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Red Samurai, from Octavio Paz suite
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
Red Samurai, from Octavio Paz suite
1987-88
Lithograph and linoleum cut in colors with chine appliqué on handmade Japanese Masa Dos...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Handmade Paper, Lithograph, Linocut
Sirens II - 20th Century, Robert Motherwell, Figurative, Print, Expressionist
Located in Köln, DE
An aquatint etching out of 1988 in a very good condition and bright colours. 57 x 66 cm. Edition of 90, signed and numbered.
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Aquatint
Japanese Maple
Located in New York, NY
2005
Sixteen color Ukiyo-e style woodcut
Image/sheet: 26 x 38 in.
Edition of 50
Signed, dated and numbered in pencil, lower margin
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Sudden Snow
Located in New York, NY
1987
Lithograph in colors, on wove paper
Sheet: 31 5/8 x 23 1/2 in.
Edition of 50
Signed, dated and numbered in pencil, lower margin
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Soho Dreams
Located in New York, NY
1987
Etching, aquatint and drypoint in colors, on wove paper
Sheet: 15 3/4 x 18 3/4 in.
Edition of 71
Signed, dated and numbered in pencil, lower margin
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Paper, Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
Bronze Smoke
Located in New York, NY
1978
Lithograph in colors, on brown wove paper
Sheet: 31 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.
Edition of 38
Signed, dated and numbered in pencil, lower margin
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Weeping Crabapple
Located in New York, NY
2009
Thirty-one color Ukiyo-e style woodcut
Image/sheet: 25 1/4 x 37 1/4 in.
Edition of 50
Signed, dated and numbered in pencil, lower margin
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Handmade Paper, Woodcut
Causeway
Located in New York, NY
An image of ethereal beauty, Helen Frankenthaler created Causeway in 2001 after a lifetime of experimentation with etching and aquatint. Hand-signed, dated and numbered in pencil, t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Soho Dreams
Located in New York, NY
1987
Color etching, aquatint, drypoint
Sheet: 15 3/4 x 18 3/4 in.
Edition of 71
Signed, dated and numbered in pencil, lower margin
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Aquatint
Bronze Smoke
Located in New York, NY
1978
Screenprint in colors
Sheet: 31 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.
Edition of 38
Signed, dated and numbered in pencil, lower margin
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Screen
The Red and Black No. 52
Located in Houston, TX
Robert Motherwell's "The Red and Black No.52" is an abstract collage that incorporates oil based etching ink, pasted papers, and aquatint on paper. The piece was created between the ...
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Aquatint
Weeping Crabapple
Located in New York, NY
2009
Thirty-one color ukiyo-e woodcut
Sheet: 25 1/4 x 37 1/4 in. (64.1 x 94.6 cm)
Edition of 50
Signed, dated and numbered in pencil
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Lilac Sweep
Located in New York, NY
2006
Lithograph in colors, on wove paper
Sheet: 22 1/4 x 27 1/2 in. (56.5 x 69.9 cm)
Edition of 35
Signed and numbered in pencil, lower margin
Framed, excellent condition
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Weeping Crabapple
Located in New York, NY
2009
Thirty-one color ukiyo-e woodcut
25 1/4 x 37 1/4 in. (64.1 x 94.6 cm)
Edition of 50
Signed, dated and numbered in pencil
Unframed, pristine condition
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Woodcut
The Red Sea
Located in New York, NY
1978
Lithograph in colors, on pink handmade paper
Sheet: 23 1/4 x 27 22/25 inches
Edition of 58
Signed, dated and numbered in pencil
Framed, mint condition
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Study for Open Series
Located in London, GB
Acrylic and graphite on paper.
15.2 x 21 cms (6 x 8 1/4 ins)
Category
20th Century Art
Materials
Acrylic, Graphite
Red, White and Blue No. 2
Located in London, GB
Acrylic and pasted paper on paper
21.6 x 17.8 cms (8 1/2 x 7 ins)
Category
20th Century Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Red, White and Blue No. 1
Located in London, GB
Acrylic and pasted paper on paper
21.6 x 17.8 cms (8 1/2 x 7 ins)
Category
20th Century Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
The Brown Stripe
Located in London, GB
Acrylic and pasted papers on paper
35.6 x 21 cms (14 x 8 1/2 ins)
Category
20th Century Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Aerie
Located in New York, NY
Edition of 128
Signed and numbered in pencil
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Screen
Untitled
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on paper
79.1 x 106.4 cms (31 1/8 x 41 15/16 ins)
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic
French Revolution Bicentennial No. 5
Located in London, GB
Acrylic, enamel and pasted papers on paper
25.4 x 35.6 cms (10 x 14 ins)
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Cabaret No. 2
Located in London, GB
Acrylic, pasted papers, and graphite on paper
56 x 26 cms (22 x 10 1/4 ins)
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Cabaret No. 8
Located in London, GB
Acrylic, pencil and collage on paper
55.9 x 26 cms (22 x 10 1/4 ins)
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra (Poster) -- signed limited edition
Located in Missouri, MO
Original color lithograph designed by Robert Motherwell for the 94th Season, Powell Symphony Hall, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
From the limited edition of 120 + A.P.s on Arches Cove...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Beau Geste III
Located in New York, NY
This striking example of the artist’s work was created by Robert Motherwell in 1989 as an original color lithograph. It is hand-signed – initialed by the artist, lower left – and nu...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
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