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Period: 20th Century
Artist: Robert Motherwell
Paroles peintes III: Untitled
Located in London, GB
Open-bite etching printed in dark, brownish black on fibrous Japan paper
38 x 28 cms (14 7/8 x 11 1/8 ins)
Edition of 200 in three numbered segments
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Etching
Lyric Suite (Brown No. 4)
Located in London, GB
Ink on rice paper
27.9 x 22.9 cms (11 x 9 ins)
Category
20th Century Art
Materials
Ink
America - La France Variations IX
Located in London, GB
Lithograph and collage
Edition of 60
72.4 x 55.3 cms (28 1/2 x 21 3/4 ins)
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Poet II - Lithograph, Abstract Print, 20th Century by Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Edition of 35
75.6 x 53.7 cms (29.76 x 21.14 ins)
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Gesture I (State I)
Located in London, GB
Aquatint, lift-ground etching and aquatint on J.B. Green paper
89.5 x 66.7 cms (35 1/4 x 26 1/4 ins)
Edition of 75
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Color, Lithograph
The Basque Suite: Untitled
Located in London, GB
104.1 x 71.8 cms (41 x 28.25 ins)
Edition of 150
Paper: J.B. Green Paper
Signed "RM" in pencil lower right; signed "Motherwell" in screen lower right
Inscriptions: Numbered in ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Color, Screen
Octavio Paz Suite: Red Samurai
Located in London, GB
Lithograph, linoleum block print, and chine appliqué, Edition of 50
CR 435
Paper:Arches paper; Japanese Masa Dosa handmade paper
Production Sequence:4 colors (including 1 colored pap...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Gesture I (State I)
Located in London, GB
Aquatint, lift-ground etching and aquatint on J.B. Green paper
89.5 x 66.7 cms (35 1/4 x 26 1/4 ins)
Edition of 75
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Elegy Fragment II
Located in London, GB
Aquatint, lift-ground etching and aquatint on Georges Duchene Hawthorne of Larroque handmade paper
87.6 x 61 cm (34 1/2 x 24 inches)
Edition of 52
Category
Abstract 20th Century Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
At the Edge
Located in London, GB
Aquatint, lift-ground etching and aquatint on Auvergne
a la Main Richard de Bas handmade paper
57.8 x 63.8 cms (22.75 x 25.1 ins)
Edition of 34
Signed "Motherwell" in pencil ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Color, Etching, Aquatint
Dedication–Lincoln Center (B.App.23)
Located in London, GB
44.5 x 29.25 ins (113 x 74.3 cms)
Edition of 108
Signature:Signed "R. Motherwell" in pencil lower left
Inscriptions:Numbered in pencil lower left; some impressions have artist's chop mark lower left
Publisher:The Juilliard School...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Color, Mixed Media, Screen
On the Wing
Located in London, GB
46.75 x 30.5 ins (118.7 x 77.5 cms)
Edition of 70
Signed in pencil lower right.
Numbered in pencil lower right; workshop chop mark lower right; workshop number "RM83-718" in pe...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Color, Lithograph
The Tower
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original etching printed in two colors on Johannot wove paper.
Hand-signed with the artist’s monogram in pencil in the margin lower right RM.
A superb impression of the defini...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Art
Mediterranean Light
Located in London, GB
Lithograph on white Tyler Graphics Ltd. (TGL) handmade paper
32 1/2 x 76 in. (82.6 x 193 cm)
Edition of 40
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Put out all Flags
Located in London, GB
Aquatint, lift-ground etching and aquatint on German Etching paper
53.3 x 73.7 cms (21 x 29 ins)
Edition of 50
Category
Abstract 20th Century Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Hospital
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original etching printed in two colors on Johannot wove paper.
Hand-signed with the artist’s monogram in pencil in the margin lower right RM.
A superb impression of the definit...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Art
Materials
Etching
Red Sea III
Located in London, GB
Aquatint and lift-ground etching on Georges Duchêne Hawthorne of Larroque handmade paper, Edition of 70
1983
90.2 x 46.4 cms (35 1/2 x 18 1/4 ins)
Category
Abstract 20th Century Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
America - La France Variations I
Located in London, GB
118.1 x 81.6 cms (46.5 x 32.1 ins)
Edition of 70
Published by Tyler Graphics, New York
Signed and numbered in pencil
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Color, Lithograph
Mexican Night II
Located in London, GB
44.5 x 44.5 cms (17.5 x 17.5 ins)
Edition of 70
Signature:Signed "Motherwell" in pencil lower right
Inscriptions:Numbered in pencil lower right; artist's chop mark lower right
...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Color, Etching, Aquatint
Game of Chance
Located in London, GB
88.3 x 69.9 cms (34.7 x 27.51 ins)
Edition of 100
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Color, Aquatint, Lithograph
Red Sea I
Located in London, GB
105.4 x 74 cms (41 1/2 x 29 1/8 ins)
Edition of 100
Paper: Arches Cover
Signature: Signed "Motherwell" in pencil lower right
Inscriptions: Numbered in pencil lower right; artist's c...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Color, Etching, Aquatint
Black Flag CR 304
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Robert Motherwell
Black Flag CR 304 , 1983
Etching
18 1/4 x 22 inches
31 x 34 1/2 x 2 1/8 inches
Edition of 42
Category
Minimalist 20th Century Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Etching
Summer
Located in New York, NY
An original lithograph of certain beauty, Paris Suite II: Summer, by Robert Motherwell is hand-initialed in pencil measuring 19 ¼ x 16 1/8 in (49 x 41 cm), unframed. From the editio...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Summertime in Italy (with Lines)
Located in London, GB
24.25 x 17 ins (61.6 x 43.2 cms)
Edition of 100
Signature Signed "Motherwell" in pencil lower right
Publisher Hollander Workshop, New York
Printer Irwin Hollander...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Color, 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
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
Modern 20th Century 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
Modern 20th Century Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Lithograph
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
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century 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
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century 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
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century 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
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century 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
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century 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
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century 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
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century 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
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century 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
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century 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
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century 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
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century 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
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century 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
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century 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
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century 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
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century 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
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century 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
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century 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
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century 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
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century 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
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century 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
20th Century 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
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century 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
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century 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
Abstract 20th Century 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
Abstract 20th Century 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
Abstract 20th Century 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
Contemporary 20th Century 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
20th Century Art
Materials
Etching
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
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Screen
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
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
London Series I: Untitled (Orange)
Located in New York, NY
Screenprint
Edition of 150
Category
20th Century Art
Materials
Screen
