Original Robert Motherwell Etching, Signed, Penelope from Ulysses 1988
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Robert Motherwell Title: Penelope Medium: Etching on Johannot paper Date: 1988 Edition: 27/40 Sheet Size: 13" x 10" Image Size: 6" x 6" Signature: Initialed (RM) in pencil
Lithograph
Original Robert Motherwell Etching, Signed, Trieste from Ulysses 1988
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Robert Motherwell Title: Trieste - Zurich - Paris Medium: Etching on Johannot paper Date: 1988 Edition: 27/40 Sheet Size: 13" x 10" Image Size: 6" x 6" Signature: Initialed (...
Lithograph
Original Robert Motherwell Etching, Signed, Music from Ulysses 1988
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Robert Motherwell Title: Music Portfolio: Ulysses Medium: Etching on Johannot paper Date: 1988 Edition: 27/40 Sheet Size: 13" x 10" Image Size: 6" x 6" Signature: Initialed (...
Lithograph
Original Robert Motherwell Etching, Signed, Nymph from Ulysses 1988
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Robert Motherwell Title: Nymph Portfolio: Ulysses Medium: Etching on Johannot paper Date: 1988 Edition: 27/40 Sheet Size: 13" x 10" Image Size: 6" x 6" Signature: Initialed (...
Lithograph
Abstract Robert Motherwell Etching, Initialed, 1988, "Telemachia-Odyssey-Nostos"
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Robert Motherwell Title: Telemachia - Odyssey - Nostos Medium: Etching on Johannot paper Date: 1988 Edition: 27/40 Frame Size: 16 7/8" x 13 7/8" Sheet Size: 13" x 10" Signatu...
Lithograph
Robert Motherwell 'Mulligan's Tower' Etching, 1983
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Dallas, TX
Robert Motherwell (America, 1915-1991) was a pioneer in the Abstract Expressionist art movement which flourished in New York City in the mid 20th Century.
Paper
Robert Motherwell '1915-1991' Amer, Etching & Aquatint
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Sarasota, FL
Titled, "Black Mountain, State II", 1983 etching and aqautint in red and blue. Numbered 29/32 and pencil-signed Motherwell lower right.
Paper
Robert Motherwell Primal Sign III Signed Etching Edition of 35
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Minneapolis, MN
Artist: Robert Motherwell Title: Primal Sign III Medium: Color aquatint and lift-ground etching on German etching paper Year: 1979/80 Sheet Size: 29" x 20.5" Edition: 28/35 Inscripti...
Paper, Etching
Signs on Copper /// Robert Motherwell Abstract Expressionism Black Brown Etching
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Robert Motherwell (American, 1915-1991) Title: "Signs on Copper" *Monogram signed and numbered by Motherwell in pencil lower right Year: 1981 Medium: Original Lift-Ground Etc...
Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio
Robert Motherwell - Pull Out All Flags, iconic etching & aquatint, SIgned 33/50
By Robert Motherwell
Located in New York, NY
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 n...
Etching, Aquatint
$4,000
Robert Motherwell Gray Open with White Paint Signed Etching Edition of 79
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Minneapolis, MN
Artist: Robert Motherwell Title: Gray Open with White Paint Medium: Soft-Ground Etching and Pochoir on Gray Handmade Paper Year: 1981 Image Size: 20.5" x 26" Frame Size: 27.5" x 33" ...
Paper, Etching
Robert Motherwell Signed Limited Edition Large Aquatint Etching Blackened Sun
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Studio City, CA
A breathtaking, large in scope and scale, rivetting work by American abstract expressionist painter, and master printmaker Robert Motherwell (1915-1991). This aquatint/lift ground ...
Paper
"Primal Sign V Copper" Aquatint and Etching by Robert Motherwell
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Stamford, CT
"Primal Sign V (Copper)" aquatint and etching from one zinc plate by Robert Motherwell (American. 1915-1991) Numbered 18/28 with 7 artist proofs in edition.
Paper
$2,850
Robert Motherwell The Bed (from the Ulysses portfolio) Signed Etching of 40
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Minneapolis, MN
Artist: Robert Motherwell Title: The Bed (from The Ulysses Portfolio) Medium: Screenprint Etching in Color on Johannot Paper Image Size: 4.375" h x 6" w Sheet Size: 13" h x 10.125" w...
Paper, Screen
Abstract Composition - Original color Etching and Aquatint - 1967
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Paris, IDF
Robert MOTHERWELL Abstract Composition Original etching and aquatint Unsigned On Johannot vellum 37.5 x 28 cm (c. 15 x 11 inch) Published by Lazar Vernet in 1967 and limited to 200 ...
Etching, Aquatint
Glass Garden, Signed 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Etching
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Created in 1984 on handmade paper, “Glass Garden” was signed in pencil, numbered 50/59, and published by Motherwell with his blind stamp in New York City. Robert Motherwell, the youn...
Etching, Aquatint
Put Out All Flags
By Robert Motherwell
Located in New York, NY
Put Out All Flags, created by Robert Motherwell in 1980, is an extraordinary color etching and aquatint characterized by vibrant color, gestural marks, and a signature red-and-black ...
Etching, Aquatint
Untitled (Vertical)
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Untitled USA, 1973 Aquatint, lift-ground etching and aquatint on Arches Cover paper Signed "Motherwell" in pencil, lower right Numbered in pencil, lower right; Artist chop mark, ...
Etching, Aquatint
Naples Yellow Open
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Signature Signed "Motherwell" in pencil lower right Publisher Artist; released by Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford Village, New York Printer Catherine Mosley, assisted by Diana Donaldson...
Etching, Aquatint
Ulysses: The Hospital
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell, the Complete Prints 1940-1991.
Etching
Three Forms
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Robert Motherwell, the Complete Prints 1940-1991.
Etching, Aquatint
Irish 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...
Etching
Price Upon Request
Paroles peintes III: Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Literature: Siri Engberg and Joan Banach 'Robert Motherwell: The Complete Prints 1940-1991.
Etching
España II
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell Espana II 1983 Aquatint and lift-ground etching on Moulin du Gue Rives de Lin paper Edition of 40 31.8 x 26.7 cms (12.5 x 10.5 ins) RME9319
Etching, Aquatint
Window
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 artists that radically defined abstraction and establish...
Etching
Seaside Studio
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...
Etching, Aquatint
Red Sea I
By Robert Motherwell
Located in New York, NY
A very good impression of this color aquatint and lift-ground etching and aquatint on Arches Cover paper. Signed and numbered 15/100 by Motherwell. There are 20 artist proofs, number...
Etching, Aquatint
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
Red Sea III
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Aquatint and lift-ground etching on Georges Duchêne Hawthorne of Larroque handmade paper, Edition of 70 1983 90.2 x 46.4 cms (35 1/2 x 18 1/4 ins)
Etching, Aquatint
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
Put out all Flags
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Aquatint, lift-ground etching and aquatint on German Etching paper 53.3 x 73.7 cms (21 x 29 ins) Edition of 50
Etching, Aquatint
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
Mexican Night II
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
44.5 x 44.5 cms (17.5 x 17.5 ins) Edition of 70 Signature:Signed "Motherwell" in pencil lower right Inscriptions:Numbered in pencil lower right; artist's chop mark lower right ...
Color, Etching, Aquatint
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
The Razor's Edge
By Robert Motherwell
Located in New York, NY
A superb impression of this scarce color aquatint and lift-ground etching on German Etching paper. Signed and numbered 27/36 in pencil, lower right. Printed by Catherine Mousley in t...
Color, Etching, Aquatint
$16,800Sale Price|20% Off
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
Mexican Night II, Robert Motherwell Etching and Aquatint
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Danvers, MA
Etching and aquatint limited edition print by celebrated abstract expressionist painter, Robert Motherwell.
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
La Casa de la Mancha, Robert Motherwell Etching and Aquatint
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Danvers, MA
"La Casa de la Mancha" (The House in La Mancha) most likely refers to the Castilla-La Mancha region of central Spain, southeast of Madrid. Motherwell created this piece in 1984, lat...
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Unavailable
"Delta" Robert Motherwell Limited Edition Print in Black and Brown
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Danvers, MA
A limited edition print by celebrated American abstract expressionist, Robert Motherwell. This print features a deep, organic palette of rich black which seems to seep and spill acro...
Archival Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Unavailable
"Primal Sign IV" Robert Motherwell Limited Edition Print in Black and Brown
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Danvers, MA
A limited edition print by celebrated American abstract expressionist, Robert Motherwell. This print features a palette of deep earth tones with Motherwell's signature expressiveness...
Archival Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Unavailable|$3,000
Beige Open
By Robert Motherwell
Located in New York, NY
Robert Motherwell Beige Open, 1981 soft-ground etching on beige Auvergne a la Main Richard de Bas handmade paper 20 x 26 1/4 inches 50.8 x 66.7 cm Edition of 80 Signed (PKE 19...
Etching
Unavailable|$5,000
La Casa de La Mancha
By Robert Motherwell
Located in New York, NY
Robert Motherwell La Casa de La Mancha, 1984 aquatint, lift-ground etching and aquatint on Whatman paper 24 1/4 x 30 inches 61.6 x 76.2 cm Edition of 70 signed "Motherwell" in ...
Aquatint, Etching
Unavailable|$5,500
The Hospital
By Robert Motherwell
Located in San Francisco, CA
Original etching printed in two colors on Johannot wove paper. Hand-signed with the artist’s monogram in pencil in the margin lower right RM. A superb impression of the definit...
Etching
Unavailable
Red Queen
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Aquatint, etching and collage 31 x 25 inches Edition of 40 Signed and numbered MOTX476B
Aquatint, Etching
Red Open with White Line
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Aquatint and soft-ground etching 18 1/2 x 35 5/8 inches Edition of 56 Signed and numbered MOTX238A
Aquatint, Etching
Unavailable
Red Sea I
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Red Sea I, 1976 Aquatint 41 1/2 x 29 1/16 inches Edition of 100 Signed and numbered MOTX158C
Etching, Aquatint
After Robert Motherwell 'Dance I' 1979 - Etching
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This exhibition poster was created for the Robert Motherwell: Prints 1977-1979 exhibition held at Brooke Alexander, Inc. in May-June 1979.
Etching
1979 'Robert Motherwell & Black' Contemporary USA Etching
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 20 x 30 inches ( 50.8 x 76.2 cm ) Image Size: 9.75 x 23.5 inches ( 24.765 x 59.69 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional ...
Etching
Sold|$7,500
Dance II Etching by Robert Motherwell, 1978
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"This rare lift-ground etching and aquatint is part of the "Dance" series of three prints by Robert Motherwell.
Paper
Sold|$9,847
Australian Stone -- Aquatint, Handmade Paper, Etching by Robert Motherwell
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
ROBERT MOTHERWELL Australian Stone, 1983-84 Aquatint printed in red, with chine collé onto Hawthorne of Larroque handmade paper Signed and numbered from the edition of 52 Printed in...
Etching, Aquatint
Sold|$2,200
Untitled Etching from Octavio Paz, Three Poems by Robert Motherwell
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Motherwell, American (1915 - 1991) Title: Octavio Paz, Three Poems 15 Year: 1987 Medium: Lithograph on Japon with Chine Colle Edition: 750 Image Size: 9 x 11 inches Pa...
Lithograph
Sold|$6,495
Signs on White
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Washington, DC
Robert Motherwell Signs on White Artist: Robert Motherwell Medium: Etching and Aquatint Title: Signs on White Year: 1981 Edition: 30/59 Sheet Size: 27 3/4" x 34" Signed: Signed with ...
Etching, Aquatint
Red Sea II
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Motherwell, Robert Title: Red Sea II Date: 1979 Medium: Color Etching with Aquatint on German etching paper Unframed Dimensions: 34.375" x 29" Framed Dimensions: 42" x...
Etching
Sold|$7,470
Black Flag
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell Black Flag 1983 Etching on Georges Duchene Hawthorne of Larroque handmade paper, Edition of 42 46.99 x 56.52 cms (18 1/2 x 22 1/4 ins) RME11104
Etching
Sold|$7,995
Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Washington, DC
Robert Motherwell, Untitled, (Engberg and Banach #138), 1973, Signed, Aquatint and lift-ground etching on Arches Cover paper, Edition 17/46, 45 1/2" x 28" Framed Size, 41 1/2" x 24" ...
Etching, Aquatint
For Meyer Schapiro: Tallith for Meyer Schapiro
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell For Meyer Schapiro: Tallith for Meyer Schapiro 1974 Lift-ground etching and aquatint on Arches Cover paper Ed. 100, 13 AP, 1 CP, 11 HC 105.4 x 74.9 cms (41.5 x 29.5...
Etching, Aquatint
Sold|$4,800
Window
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 artists that radically defined abstraction and establish...
Etching
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.
Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.
Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.
Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.
Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.
Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.
“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.
Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.
For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)
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