Basque Suite
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Toronto, Ontario
The title refers to the distinctive Basque language, whose compound structure provided a conceptual parallel for Motherwell’s layered compositions.
Screen
Basque Suite
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Toronto, Ontario
The title refers to the distinctive Basque language, whose compound structure provided a conceptual parallel for Motherwell’s layered compositions.
Screen
Basque Suite #12
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Literature: Engberg, S. & Banach, J. (2003). Robert Motherwell, the Complete Prints 1940-1991.
Screen
The Basque Suite #6
By Robert Motherwell
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color screenprint on J. B. Green paper. Initialed and numbered 96/150 in pencil by Motherwell. Printed by Kelpra Studio, London. Published by Marlborou...
Color, Screen
The Basque Suite #2
By Robert Motherwell
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color screenprint on J. B. Green paper. Initialed and numbered 134/150 in pencil by Motherwell. Printed by Kelpra Studio, London. Published by Marlboro...
Color, Screen
The Basque Suite: Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
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 ...
Color, Screen
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...
Screen, Color
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...
Screen, Color
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
Color, Screen
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)
Screen
Unavailable
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 lower right along with edition number "130/150".
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.
Screen
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 up the quartet of abstract painters that radically defined Modern painting in Ameri...
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 up the quartet of abstract painters that radically defined Modern painting in Ameri...
Screen
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H 40.75 in W 28.5 in
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 up the quartet of abstract painters that radically defined Modern painting in Ameri...
Screen
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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 up the quartet of abstract painters that radically defined Modern painting in Ameri...
Screen
The Basque Suite: Untitled 1971, Robert Motherwell
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Screen Print on J. B. Green paper, from the edition of 150. Numbered in pencil 122/150 lower right, signed RM and signed in plate Motherwell. Framed in an archival lucite box. Pri...
Robert Motherwell, The Basque Suite, Untitled Screen Print
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Stamford, CT
Robert Motherwell. The Basque Suite A: Untitled.
Basque Suite #2
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of abstract painters that radically defined Modern painting in Ameri...
Screen
Untitled (from Basque Suite)
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
40.98 x 28.23 ins (104.1 x 71.7 cms) Edition of 150 Signature: Signed "RM" in pencil lower right; signed "Motherwell" in screen upper left. Inscriptions:Numbered in pencil lower ...
Color, 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
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
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
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
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
Screen
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, ...
Color, Screen
Robert Motherwell 'Basque Elegy' 1992- Poster
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This striking poster, titled Elegy to the Spanish Republic, was created by the renowned artist Robert Motherwell. Published by Universal Prints in Hamburg and printed in Germany, thi...
Offset
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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 (American, 1915-1991).
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...
Color, Screen
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: Screenprint on J.B.
Screen
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’s, Untitled #8 (from The Basque Suite) demonstrates the bold, highly saturated areas o...
Screen
Untitled No. 12 (from the basque suite)
By Robert Motherwell
Located in New York, NY
Serigraph/Silkscreen Edition of 50 Signature top left
Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Brushed aquatint, lift-ground etching and aquatint on German Etching paper 71.8 x 56.5 cms (28 1/4 x 22 1/4 ins) Edition of 32
Etching, Aquatint
Paris Suite 1 (Spring)
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell Paris Suite I (Spring) 1980 Lithograph on J.B. Green handmade paper, Edition of 60 48.9 x 48.9 cms (19 1/4 x 19 1/4 ins) RM17031
Lithograph
Elegy Fragment II
By Robert Motherwell
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
Etching, Aquatint
America - La France Variations I
By Robert Motherwell
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
Color, Lithograph
Africa Suite: Africa 8
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
The original studies from the 'Africa Suite' were a group of ten works selected from a series of ink-on-paper drawings from the same year. The large automatic brush drawings were rew...
Screen
Carpeta
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of abstract painters that radically defined Modern painting in Ameri...
Lithograph
$9,500
H 29.5 in W 24.5 in D 1.5 in
"Untitled" Robert Motherwell from the Portfolio Nine
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Hinsdale, IL
Robert Motherwell Untitled (from Portfolio 9), 1966 Lithograph from one zinc plate printed in blue, 1966 22.25 x 17.25 in. (56.52 x 43.82 cm.) Signed; lower left with artist's tra...
Lithograph
Perpetual Summer
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
60 x 42.9 cms ( 23.62 x 16.89 ins) Edition of 26 Signature:Signed "Motherwell" in pencil lower right Inscriptions:Numbered in pencil lower right; artist's chop mark lower right Publ...
Color, Etching, Aquatint
America La France Variations III
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991) is one of the essential American abstract painters that radically defined post-war abstraction in New York City. Today, his work appears in museum coll...
Lithograph
Paroles peintes III: Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
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
Etching
Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
29.88 x 22.36 ins (75.9 x 56.8 cms) Edition of 96 Signature:Signed "R. Motherwell" in pencil lower right Inscriptions:Numbered in pencil lower right; artist's chop mark lower right ...
Color, Etching, Aquatint
Game of Chance
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Calabasas, CA
Artist: Robert Motherwell Title: Game of Chance (B. 377) Year: 1987 Medium: Aquatint, lithograph and collage on HMP handmade paper Edition: 100; signed and numbered in pencil Sheet: ...
Lithograph, Mixed Media, Aquatint
In Celebration
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Toronto, Ontario
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...
Lithograph
Africa Suite: Africa 7
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
The original studies from the 'Africa Suite' were a group of ten works selected from a series of ink-on-paper drawings from the same year. The large automatic brush drawings were rew...
Screen
Africa Suite #6
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of abstract painters that radically defined Modern painting in Ameri...
Screen
Africa Suite: Africa 9
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
The original studies from the 'Africa Suite' were a group of ten works selected from a series of ink-on-paper drawings from the same year. The large automatic brush drawings were rew...
Screen
$9,000
H 32 in W 37 in
"Untitled" Donald Judd, Black and White, Stripes, Minimalist, Abstract Art
By Donald Judd
Located in New York, NY
Donald Judd Untitled, 1980 Signed "Judd" in pencil lower right margin and numbered Aquatint on etching paper Image 24 1/4 x 29 1/4 inches Sheet 29 1/8 x 34 inches Edition 29/150 Pro...
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
$4,031Sale Price / set|25% Off
H 31.89 in W 18.9 in D 26.78 in
4 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Mr10 Dining Chairs 1960s Knoll International
By Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Located in London, GB
Complete set of four chrome cantilever MR10 chairs by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, in brown leather. This set of chairs is an early 1960s example of his famous design produced by Knoll ...
Steel, Chrome
$2,900
H 31 in W 23.25 in
Douglas Semivan Print "Abstract in Gold and Black"
By Douglas Semivan
Located in Detroit, MI
"Abstract in Gold and Black" is a well-balanced calm piece. The placement of the gold and white can be read as a distant landscape giving much imagined space to the heavier black are...
Paper, Printer's Ink
Discs and Spirals
By Alexander Calder
Located in Miami, FL
Alexander Calder (American, 1898-1976) Signed: Calder (Lower, Right) Discs and Spirals, 1970 Lithograph in Colors on Wove Paper Sheet Size: 26” x 38” Numbered: Numbered from an editi...
Lithograph
$36,000
H 32 in W 25.5 in D 1.5 in
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) "Daphnis Discovers Chloe"
By Marc Chagall
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) "Daphnis Discovers Chloe" from ...
Lithograph
$4,250
H 26 in W 132 in D 65 in
Handsome Milo Baughman style 6 Piece Sectional Sofa Selig Mid-Century Modern
By Milo Baughman
Located in Pemberton, NJ
Handsome Milo Baughman style 6 piece cube sectional sofa made by Selig. This is a designers delight in that it needs to be reupholstered so the sky is the limit as far as fabric sel...
Upholstery, Walnut
$8,485 / set
H 67 in W 99 in D 43 in
Trapezi 6 Sculptural Chandelier by Silvio Mondino Studio, Bright Tones Glass
By Silvio Mondino Studio
Located in Reggio Emilia, IT
Trapezi is a Sculptural Italian Chandelier designed by Silvio Mondino Studio, inspired by the suspended movement of a circus trapeze artist. Its elements appear to float freely in sp...
Brass
$2,000
H 22.25 in W 29.5 in
Three Poems: Mexico City Personages II, Abstract Lithograph by Robert Motherwell
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Long Island City, NY
Three Poems: Mexico City Personages II Robert Motherwell, American (1915–1991) Portfolio: Octavio Paz Date: 1988 Lithograph on Japon with Chine Colle Edition of 750 Image Size: 13 x ...
Lithograph
Josef Albers Silk Screen Diptych
By Josef Albers
Located in Chicago, IL
Josef Albers formulations - Articulations I & II Print #9 Edition 974/ 1000 1972 screen-print on paper Embossed with Josef Albers initials, portfolio and folder number. This work is ...
Paper
$108Sale Price|20% Off
H 10 in W 6.5 in D 1 in
French Expressionist Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011) gouache painting on paper/ card unframed: 10 x 6.5 inches condition: excellent provenance: all the paintings we have...
Oil
$100Sale Price|20% Off
H 27 in W 20 in D 0.1 in
Art Chicago (No Text) Lithograph Print, Abstract, 1981, Unframed
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Originally produced for the 1981 art show at Navy Pier in Chicago, these posters were part of an estimated edition size of about 2,000. The cropped version is particularly rare, as i...
Lithograph
$35,000
H 44 in W 60.5 in
"Untitled" Edward Zutrau, 1957 Blue And Green Abstract Expressionist Work
By Edward Zutrau
Located in New York, NY
Edward Zutrau Untitled, 1957 Oil on linen 44 x 60 1/2 inches Edward Zutrau is among the American artists who worked within the whirlwind of diverse abstraction that blossomed in th...
Linen, Oil
$2,022Sale Price|20% Off
H 15 in W 23 in
1930's French Impressionist Daises In Vase On Blue and White Table Interior
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Daisies In Vase signed by Y. Blanchon, French 1950's Impressionist oil painting on canvas, framed framed: 15 x 23 inches canvas: 13.5 x 22 inches provenance: from a large private co...
Canvas, Oil
$2,000
H 22.25 in W 29.5 in
Three Poems: Mexico City Personages I, Abstract Lithograph by Robert Motherwell
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Long Island City, NY
Three Poems: Mexico City Personages I Robert Motherwell, American (1915–1991) Portfolio: Octavio Paz Date: 1988 Lithograph on Japon with Chine Colle Edition of 750 Image Size: 13 x 2...
Lithograph
Obra Inèdita Recent X
By Joan Miró
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Joan Miró is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He is renowned internationally as a painter, sculptor, printmaker, and ceramicist. Miró’s works, which were at the int...
Lithograph
$3,203 / set
H 16.54 in W 12.8 in D 1.19 in
Pair of Abstract Collagen Brown-Black Monogrammed and Dated Norbert Krabbe, 1997
Located in Salzburg, AT
Pair of collages monogrammed and dated Norbert Krabbe 1997. Handmade frame, mounted as in the showcase. Norbert Krabbe (1951 Demmin, lives since 2005 in Koserow) is an artistic aut...
Wood, Paper, Glass
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.
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.
Find original abstract paintings, sculptures, prints and other art on 1stDibs.
Explore a vast range of abstract prints on 1stDibs to find a piece to enhance your existing collection or transform a space.
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.