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Open Study (White Line on Beige No. 1)
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on paper
77.5 x 55.9 cms (30 1/2 x 22 ins)
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Grax
By Pia Fries
Located in London, GB
Pia Fries
Grax
2006
Oil and silkscreen on wood
100 x 70 cms (39 3/8 x 27 9/16 ins)
PF9396
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Oil
$23,520
Untitled (BY)
By Marc Vaux
Located in London, GB
Marc Vaux
Untitled (BY)
1965
Acrylic on cotton duck
77 x 77.5 cms (30.3 x 30.5 ins)
MV20871
Category
1960s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$30,288
Twig Arrangement in front of Garden Arrangement - Grey blue
By Bruce McLean
Located in London, GB
A painting by contemporary Scottish sculptor, painter and performance artist Bruce McLean.
Category
2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic
Volatile Serenity
Located in London, GB
Shirley Kaneda
Volatile Serenity
2005
Oil on canvas
127 x 101.6 cms (50 x 40 ins)
SK9315
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Oil
Orient Express #6
By Helen Frankenthaler
Located in London, GB
A unique work, 1977, acrylic on paper, signed and dated 'Frankenthaler '77' in pencil, 61 x 99 cm. (24 x 39 in.)
Helen Frankenthaler came of age in the midst of the avant-garde art s...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Atvatabar I
By Frank Stella
Located in London, GB
Provenance:
Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zurich;
Swiss property.
Exhibition:
Valencia, IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern. 'Frank Stella, From Strictness to Baroque', 12th July - 14th October 2012.
Literature:
Exhibition catalogue: 'Frank Stella, From Strictness to Baroque', Valencia, IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, 2012, pages 62-63, full page color illustration;
Süddeutsche Zeitung, Magazin. No. 6, 9.2.1996. Vorsicht, frisch gestrichen, Ein Besuch im Atelier Frank Stella, page 31...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Resin, Fiberglass, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Elegy Sketch
By Robert Motherwell
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Black Open
By Robert Motherwell
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Open No. 45: In Blue with Brown
By Robert Motherwell
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Alberti Suite No. 8
By Robert Motherwell
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Dr. Zhivago's Country Study
By Robert Motherwell
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Untitled (Open in Yellow, Black and Blue)
By Robert Motherwell
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Untitled (Red Open)
By Robert Motherwell
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Untitled (Ochre Open)
By Robert Motherwell
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Price Upon Request
Shem the Penman #18
By Robert Motherwell
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Open Untitled (Yellow)
By Robert Motherwell
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Great Wall of China No. 4
By Robert Motherwell
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Premonition Open, with Flesh over Grey
By Robert Motherwell
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic Polymer, Graphite
Price Upon Request
Two Figures No. 12
By Robert Motherwell
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Price Upon Request
Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel, Color Pencil
Price Upon Request
Shem the Penman #19
By Robert Motherwell
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
The Studio
By Robert Motherwell
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Open No. 126: In Beige with Blue
By Robert Motherwell
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 163
By Robert Motherwell
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Conté, Acrylic, Board
Price Upon Request
Two Figures No. 7
By Robert Motherwell
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Price Upon Request
Royal Dirge
By Robert Motherwell
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 60
By Robert Motherwell
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Oil
Price Upon Request
Homage to Catalonia
By Robert Motherwell
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Open #125: Jeannie
By Robert Motherwell
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Charcoal
Price Upon Request
Untitled from the Westwood Paintings
By William Tillyer
Located in London, GB
William Tillyer
Untitled (The Westwood Paintings)
1989
Acrylic on canvas
61 x 71.1 cms (24 x 28 ins)
WT9778
Category
1980s American Modern Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Automatism No. 11
By Robert Motherwell
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Ink, Oil
Price Upon Request
Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 110C
By Robert Motherwell
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Laid Paper, Graphite
Price Upon Request
Small Green Field with Landscape - The Mulgrave Tensile Wire Works
By William Tillyer
Located in London, GB
William Tillyer’s Recent Paintings
by John Yau
Time has proven William Tillyer to be the most adventuresome painter of his generation. This is no small achievement. In a country kno...
Category
2010s Contemporary Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Found Objects, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Brasileira
By Robert Motherwell
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
89AS-1
By Larry Poons
Located in London, GB
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 1989, 25.4 x 120.02 cm. (10 x 47 ½ in.)
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Red, White and Blue No. 2
By Robert Motherwell
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Red, White and Blue No. 1
By Robert Motherwell
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
The Brown Stripe
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Acrylic and pasted papers on paper
35.6 x 21 cms (14 x 8 1/2 ins)
Category
20th Century Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Price Upon Request
French Revolution Bicentennial No. 5
By Robert Motherwell
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 Ifpda International Fine Print Dealers Association Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Price Upon Request
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