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Robert MotherwellPull Out All Flags (Engberg Banach 263) iconic abstract expressionist work 33/501980
1980
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Robert Motherwell
Pull Out All Flags (Engberg, Banach 263), 1980
Aquatint and etching in colors, on German Etching paper, with full margins
Hand-signed by artist, Pencil signed and numbered 33/50 on the front (there were also 10 artist's proofs).
Published by American Federation for the Arts, New York; printed by Catherine Mousley
A gorgeous impression of one of the most desirable and dazzling Robert Motherwell Abstract Expressionist graphic works.
Catalogue Raisonne Reference: Engberg and Banach, 263
Frame included:
Elegantly float and framed with hand made white museum frame and Optium UV plexiglass
Measurements:
Framed:
23 inches vertical by 31 inches horizontal by 2 inches
Artwork:
20.75 inches vertical by 29.25 inches horizontal
About Robert Motherwell:
One of the youngest proponents of the Abstract Expressionist movement, Robert Motherwell rose to critical acclaim with his first solo exhibition at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century gallery in 1944. Not only was Motherwell one of the major practicing Abstract Expressionist artists, he was, in fact, the main intellectual driving force within the movement—corralling fellow New York painters such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Hans Hoffman and William Baziotes into his circle. Motherwell later coined the term the "New York School", a designation synonymous to Abstract Expressionism that loosely refers to a wide variety of non-objective work produced in New York between 1940 and 1960.
During an over five-decade-long career, Motherwell created a large and powerful body of varied work that includes paintings, drawings, prints and collages. Motherwell's work is most generally characterized by simple shapes, broad color contrasts and a dynamic interplay between restrained and gestural brushstrokes. Above all, it demonstrates his approach to art-making as a response to the complexity of lived, and importantly felt, experience.
- Creator:Robert Motherwell (1915-1991, American)
- Creation Year:1980
- Dimensions:Height: 23 in (58.42 cm)Width: 31 in (78.74 cm)Depth: 2 in (5.08 cm)
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- Condition:Excellent condition; elegantly float framed with hand made white museum frame and Optium UV - the highest quality plexiglass.
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1745213396362
Robert Motherwell
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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