Basque Suite #12
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
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Screen
Robert Motherwell Basque
The Basque Suite #6
By Robert Motherwell
Located in New York, NY
/150 in pencil by Motherwell. Printed by Kelpra Studio, London. Published by Marlborough Graphics, Inc
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
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The Basque Suite #2
By Robert Motherwell
Located in New York, NY
/150 in pencil by Motherwell. Printed by Kelpra Studio, London. Published by Marlborough Graphics, Inc
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
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Color, Screen
The Basque Suite #4
By Robert Motherwell
Located in New York, NY
Color screenprinton J. B. Green paper, 1970-71. Initialed by the artist and numbered 85/150 in pencil, lower right. Printed by Kelpra Studio, London. Published by Marlborough Graph...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
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The Basque Suite #5
By Robert Motherwell
Located in New York, NY
Color screenprint on J. B. Green paper, 1970-71. Initialed by the artist and numbered 123/150 in pencil, lower right. Printed by Kelpra Studio, London. Published by Marlborough Gra...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
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The Basque Suite: Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
lower right; signed "Motherwell" in screen lower right Inscriptions: Numbered in pencil lower left or
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
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The Basque Suite: Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Colour screenprint on J.B. Green paper 104.1 x 71.7 cms (41 x 28 1/4 ins) Edition of 150
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
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The Basque Suite: Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Edition of 150 104.1 x 71.7 cms (41 x 28 1/4 ins)
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
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Screen
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Robert Motherwell"The Basque Suite: Untitled" Blue Limited Edition Motherwell Print, 1971
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H 41 in W 28.25 in
"The Basque Suite: Untitled" Blue Limited Edition Motherwell Print
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Danvers, MA
Part of The Basque Suite series. Abstract print with shades of blue, black and white. Signed in
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
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Screen
The Basque Suite: Untitled (ref. 86)
By Robert Motherwell
Located in New York, NY
Robert Motherwell The Basque Suite: Untitled (ref. 86), 1971 screenprint on J.B. Green paper, ed
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
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The Basque Suite: Untitled (B-82)
By Robert Motherwell
Located in New York, NY
Edition 150. Screenprint.
Robert Motherwell "Basque Suite No. 4"
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
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Screen
Robert Motherwell "Basque Suite No. 4"
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
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Robert MotherwellRobert Motherwell "Basque Suite No. 13" Screenprint, 1976, 1971
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Robert Motherwell "Basque Suite No. 13" Screenprint, 1976
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
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Robert MotherwellRobert Motherwell "Basque Suite No. 4" Screenprint, 1972, 1972
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H 40.75 in W 28.5 in
Robert Motherwell "Basque Suite No. 4" Screenprint, 1972
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
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Screen
The Basque Suite: Untitled 1971, Robert Motherwell
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Palm Desert, CA
, signed RM and signed in plate Motherwell. Framed in an archival lucite box. Print was made by Chris
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Vintage 1970s American Prints
Robert Motherwell, The Basque Suite, Untitled Screen Print
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Stamford, CT
Robert Motherwell. The Basque Suite A: Untitled. From the Basque Suite produced in 1971. Screen
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Vintage 1970s American Contemporary Art
Basque Suite #2
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made
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1970s Abstract Prints
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Screen
Untitled (from Basque Suite)
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
right; signed "Motherwell" in screen upper left. Inscriptions:Numbered in pencil lower left or lower
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
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The Basque Suite #1
By Robert Motherwell
Located in New York, NY
A very good, bright impression color screenprint on J. B. Green paper. Initialed and numbered 106/150 in pencil. Printed by Kelpra Studio, London. Published by Marlborough Graphics, ...
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The Basque Suite: Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Colour screenprint on J.B. Green paper 104.1 x 71.7 cms (41 x 28 1/4 ins) Edition of 150
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
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Screen
The Basque Suite: Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Colour screenprint on J.B. Green paper 104.1 x 71.7 cms (41 x 28 1/4 ins) Edition of 150
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
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Screen
The Basque Suite: Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Colour screenprint printed in black and orange on J.B. Green paper 104.1 x 71.7 cms (41 x 28 1/4 ins) Edition of 150
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
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Screen
The Basque Suite: Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Colour screenprint printed in blue and black on J.B. Green paper 104.1 x 71.7 cms (41 x 28 1/4 ins) Edition of 150
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
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Screen
The Basque Suite: Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Screenprint on J.B. Green paper 104.1 x 71.7 cms (41 x 28 1/4 ins) Edition of 150
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
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Robert Motherwell 'Basque Elegy' 1992- Poster
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Robert Motherwell. Published by Universal Prints in Hamburg and printed in Germany, this large-format
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1990s Abstract Prints and Multiples
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The Basque Suite: Untitled, Signed and Numbered Silkscreen by Robert Motherwell
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H 43.5 in W 31.5 in D 1.5 in
The Basque Suite: Untitled, Signed and Numbered Silkscreen by Robert Motherwell
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Stamford, CT
The Basque Suite: Untitled, 1971, signed and numbered 105/150 silkscreen by Robert Motherwell
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Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Contemporary Art
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Acrylic, Paper
The Basque Suite #10
By Robert Motherwell
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color screenprint on J. B. Green paper. Initialed and numbered 115/150 in pencil. Printed by Kelpra Studio, London, with the ink stamp verso. Published...
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The Basque Suite: Untitled (ref. 79)
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Austin, TX
Artist: Robert Motherwell Title: The Basque Suite: Untitled (ref. 79) Year: 1971 Medium
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1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
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Untitled No. 8
By Robert Motherwell
Located in New York, NY
One of the most experimental and courageous printmakers of the 20th century, Robert Motherwell
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Untitled No. 12 (from the basque suite)
By Robert Motherwell
Located in New York, NY
Serigraph/Silkscreen Edition of 50 Signature top left
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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.
A Close Look at Abstract Art
Beginning in the early 20th century, abstract art became a leading style of modernism. Rather than portray the world in a way that represented reality, as had been the dominating style of Western art in the previous centuries, abstract paintings, prints and sculptures are marked by a shift to geometric forms, gestural shapes and experimentation with color to express ideas, subject matter and scenes.
Although abstract art flourished in the early 1900s, propelled by movements like Fauvism and Cubism, it was rooted in the 19th century. In the 1840s, J.M.W. Turner emphasized light and motion for atmospheric paintings in which concrete details were blurred, and Paul Cézanne challenged traditional expectations of perspective in the 1890s.
Some of the earliest abstract artists — Wassily Kandinsky and Hilma af Klint — expanded on these breakthroughs while using vivid colors and forms to channel spiritual concepts. Painter Piet Mondrian, a Dutch pioneer of the art movement, explored geometric abstraction partly owing to his belief in Theosophy, which is grounded in a search for higher spiritual truths and embraces philosophers of the Renaissance period and medieval mystics. Black Square, a daringly simple 1913 work by Russian artist Kazimir Malevich, was a watershed statement on creating art that was free “from the dead weight of the real world,” as he later wrote.
Surrealism in the 1920s, led by artists such as Salvador Dalí, Meret Oppenheim and others, saw painters creating abstract pieces in order to connect to the subconscious. When Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York during the mid-20th century, it similarly centered on the process of creation, in which Helen Frankenthaler’s expressive “soak-stain” technique, Jackson Pollock’s drips of paint, and Mark Rothko’s planes of color were a radical new type of abstraction.
Conceptual art, Pop art, Hard-Edge painting and many other movements offered fresh approaches to abstraction that continued into the 21st century, with major contemporary artists now exploring it, including Anish Kapoor, Mark Bradford, El Anatsui and Julie Mehretu.
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Unlike figurative paintings and other figurative art, which focuses on realism and representational perspectives, abstract art concentrates on visual interpretation. An artist may use a single color or simple geometric forms to create a world of depth. Printmaking has a rich history of abstraction. Through materials like stone, metal, wood and wax, an image can be transferred from one surface to another.
During the 19th century, iconic artists, including Edvard Munch, Paul Cézanne, Georgiana Houghton and others, began exploring works based on shapes and colors. This was a departure from the academic conventions of European painting and would influence the rise of 20th-century abstraction and its pioneers, like Pablo Picasso and Piet Mondrian.
Some leaders of European abstraction, including Franz Kline, were influenced by the gestural shapes of East Asian calligraphy. Calligraphy interprets poetry, songs, symbols or other means of storytelling into art, from works on paper in Japan to elements of Islamic architecture.
Bold, daring and expressive, abstract art is constantly evolving and dazzling viewers. And entire genres have blossomed from it, such as Color Field painting and Minimalism.
The collection of abstract art prints on 1stDibs includes etchings, lithographs, screen-prints and other works, and you can find prints by artists such as Joan Miró, Alexander Calder and more.