Jean-Paul Riopelle

Le Couchant

1979

Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of American abstract painters that radically defined abstraction and established New York City as the center of the art world for the second half of the 20th century. Motherwell was also the unofficial spokesman of the New York School, writing, teaching and lecturing on behalf of the movement, his fellow artists, and the merits of abstraction. His work appears in museum collections around the world and is instantly recognizable for its boldness and black forms. Yet in addition to his impressive paintings, Motherwell is also revered as a printmaker. He is one of the most innovative and prolific printmakers of the 20th century. He was always searching for new techniques, whether at his own printmaking atelier, or collaborating with others, to expand his ideas and express his aesthetic. This print, along with "El General", was created at Tyler Graphics in 1979. "Rites of Passage II...

Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of American abstract painters that radically defined abstraction and...

Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is one of the most distinctive, provocative and influential painters of the 20th century. His singular aesthetic was a violent intersection between abstra...

Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of American abstract painters that radically defined Modern painting and established New York City as the center of the art world for the second half of the 20th century. While compared to his peers, Motherwell's works are arguably the most challenging for the uninitiated. Nevertheless, he was the unofficial spokesman of the New York School, writing and lecturing prolifically on behalf of the movement, his fellow artists, and the merits of abstraction. (Before devoting himself to painting, Motherwell had started a PhD at Harvard in philosophy. In addition to his talents as an artist, he was incredibly articulate.) As a passionate lover of poetry, Motherwell compared his own visual language to that of poetry. One of his favorite poets and dear friends was Octavio Paz. Originally from Mexico, Paz was an essayist, poet, and Nobel Prize Winner. The two shared a mutual admiration for one another and after each dedicating works to the other they decided to collaborate. Together they produced Three Poems (1987-1988), a suite of 27 lithographs with accompanying poetry by Paz translated into English. "Red Samurai...

Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of American abstract painters that radically defined abstraction and...

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...

Comes with the certificate of authenticity, a high quality frame and signed by the artist.

Colour-intensive offset lithograph, hand signed, numbered (edition of 100) and dated (2005). Lithograph after watercolour painting: A sensitive choice of colours and an expressive br...

Exhibition poster "Composition" by Nicola De Maria Created for an exhibition at Galerie Lelong, Paris in October 1988 In great condition Minimal traces...

Lithograph, 1961 Catalog : Vallier171 Mourlot77 32.00 cm. x 25.00 cm. 12.6 in. x 9.84 in. (paper) 23.00 cm. x 19.00 cm. 9.06 in. x 7.48 in. (image) Handsigned by the artist in penc...

Lithograph, 1955 Edition : VIII/X Publisher : Louis Broder (Paris) Printer : Desjobert (Paris) Catalog : Vallier 153 22.00 cm. x 32.00 cm. 8.66 in. x 12.6 in. (paper) 22.00 cm. x 32...

Serigraph, 1970 Edition : 214/275 85.00 cm. x 55.00 cm. 33.46 in. x 21.65 in. (paper) 76.00 cm. x 43.00 cm. 29.92 in. x 16.93 in. (image) Handsigned by the artist in pencil Ref : L...