Robert Motherwell Art
American, 1915-1991
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.
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Artist: Robert Motherwell
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No. 6 from Three Poems
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Motherwell, American (1915 - 1991)
Title: No. 2 from Three Poems, collaboration with Octavio Paz
Year: 1987
Medium: Lithograph on Japon with Chine Colle
Edition: 750
...
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1980s Modern Robert Motherwell Art
Materials
Rice Paper, Lithograph
Glass Garden
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...
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
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Etching, Aquatint
Paris Suite (Autumn)
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 collections around the world and is instantly recognizable for its boldness and black forms. His auction record was set in 2018 at $12.6 million USD.
In addition to his impressive paintings, Motherwell is also revered as 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.
Created in 1980, "Paris Suite...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
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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
Category
1980s Abstract Robert Motherwell Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
St. Michael III
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 Modern painting...
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1970s Abstract Robert Motherwell Art
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Screen, Lithograph
Octavio Paz Suite: Nocturne VIII
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Lithograph and chine appliqué
64.5 x 54 cms (25 3/8 x 21 1/4 ins)
Edition of 50
Paper: Arches paper; Japanese Gampi handmade paper
Other Collaborators: Image transferred from Mylar...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
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Handmade Paper, Color, Lithograph
Rites of Passage II
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 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...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
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Handmade Paper, Lithograph
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 Robert Motherwell Art
Materials
Screen
Black Sounds
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Black Sounds
1984
Lithograph, relief print, and collage
99.1 x 63.5 cms (39 x 25 ins)
RM14197
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
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Lithograph
Black Open
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Black Open
1985
Aquatint and line etching on Whatman paper
40.6 x 43.2 cms (16 x 17 ins)
RM14234
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
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Aquatint
Tricolor 137
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Mount Vernon, NY
Date: 1973
Lithograph, signed in the plate
Image Size: 12 x 9 inches
Category
1970s Modern Robert Motherwell Art
Materials
Lithograph
Black Cathedral
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Black Cathedral
1991
Lithograph on white Tyler Graphics Ltd. (TGL) handmade paper, Edition of 40
170.2 x 119.4 cms (67 x 64 ins)
RM17876
Siri Engberg and Joan Bana...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
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Lithograph
"Redness of Red" Lithograph Screenprint Collage Contemporary Abstract Abex 1/100
By Robert Motherwell
Located in New York, NY
"Redness of Red" Lithograph Screenprint Collage Contemporary Abstract Abex 1/100
Redness of Red by Robert Burns Motherwell (1915-1991) Lithograph Scree...
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1980s Abstract Robert Motherwell Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph, Screen
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
...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
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Color, Etching, Aquatint
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 autom...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
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Screen
Octavio Paz Suite: Nocturne VII
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Lithograph and chine appliqué
64.5 x 54 cms (25 3/8 x 21 1/4 ins)
Edition of 50
Paper: Arches paper; Japanese Gampi handmade paper
Other Collaborators: Image transferred from Mylar ...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
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Handmade Paper, Color, 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...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
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Color, Etching, Aquatint
Signs on Copper /// Abstract Expressionism Robert Motherwell Brown Black Etching
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Robert Motherwell (American, 1915-1991)
Title: "Signs on Copper"
*Signed and numbered by Motherwell in pencil lower right
Year: 1981
Medium: Original Lift-Ground Etching with Aquatint on German Etching paper
Limited edition: 45/53, (there were also 10 artist's proofs)
Printer: Catherine Mosley in the artist's studio, Greenwich, CT
Publisher: The artist Motherwell himself, Greenwich, CT
Reference: "Catalogue Raisonné 1943-1990 - The Prints of Robert Motherwell" - Belknap No. 252, page 249; Engberg No. 286
Framing: Not framed, but matted with a custom hand-wrapped 8 ply linen mat
Matted size: 28.25" x 33.75"
Sheet size: 27" x 31.75"
Image size: 17.75" x 23.5"
Condition: Light mat stain in margins and a light water stain to lower right corner in margin. It is otherwise a strong impression in very good condition with rich colors; the printed image is pristine
Very rare
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Palm Beach, FL. Released by Petersburg Press, London, UK and New York, NY. Artist's chop mark/blind stamp lower right. Printed in 2 colors in 3 runs from 2 zinc plates and 1 copper plate: 1. burnt sienna - zinc plate (aquatint); 2. burnt sienna - copper plate (aquatint); 3. black - zinc plate (lift-ground etching and aquatint).
Biography:
Robert Motherwell was born January 24, 1915, in Aberdeen, Washington. He was awarded a fellowship to the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles at age 11, and in 1932 studied painting briefly at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Motherwell received a B.A. from Stanford University in 1937 and enrolled for graduate work later that year in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He traveled to Europe in 1938 for a year of study abroad. His first solo show was presented at the Raymond Duncan...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
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Intaglio, Etching, Aquatint
America La-France Variations IX
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 Modern painting...
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1980s Abstract Robert Motherwell Art
Materials
Lithograph
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
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Bastos
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Edition of 49 plus 12 artist's proofs
158.4 x 101.6 cms (62.4 x 40 ins)
Published by Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford Village, New York
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
Materials
Lithograph
Lincoln Center Mostly Mozart, 25th Anniversary, Lithograph by Robert Motherwell
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Motherwell, American (1915 - 1991)
Title: Lincoln Center Mostly Mozart, 25th Anniversary
Year: 1991
Medium: Lithograph and Screenprint on ...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
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Lithograph, Screen
No. 2 from Three Poems
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Robert Motherwell, American (1915 - 1991)
Title: No. 2 from Three Poems, collaboration with Octavio Paz
Year: 1987
Medium: Lithograph on Japon with Chine Colle
Edition: 750
...
Category
1980s Modern Robert Motherwell Art
Materials
Rice Paper, 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 autom...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
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Screen
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...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Summertime in Italy (with Lines)
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Lithograph on Rives BFK paper
61.6 x 43.18 cms (24 1/4 x 17 inches)
Edition of 100
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
Materials
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 autom...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
Materials
Screen
Africa Suite: Africa 6
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 autom...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
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Screen
Africa Suite: Africa 10
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 autom...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
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Screen
Bicentennial Suite
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Santa Fe, NM
French Revolution Bicentennial Suite is a set of four 1988 aquatints with photoengraving and collage elements by Robert Motherwell. The iconic Suite is hand signed in graphite by Mot...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
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Aquatint
Mediterranean Light
By Robert Motherwell
Located in New York, NY
1991
Lithograph in colors, on white TGL handmade paper
Sheet: 32 2/5 x 76 inches
Edition of 40
Signed and numbered in pencil
Framed, mint condition
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
Materials
Lithograph
Mediterranean Light
By Robert Motherwell
Located in New York, NY
1991
Lithograph in colors, on white TGL handmade paper
Sheet: 32 2/5 x 76 inches
Edition of 40
Signed and numbered in pencil
Framed
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
Materials
Lithograph
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
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
Materials
Color, Screen
Irish Book
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Acrylic and pasted papers on canvas mounted on board
50.8 x 40.6 cms (20 x 16 ins)
This collage includes a fragment of a 1985 print, Burning Sun. Although Motherwell signed...
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
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Canvas, Paper, Acrylic
Paris Suite 3 (Autumn)
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Paris Suite III (Autumn)
1980
Lithograph on J.B. Green handmade paper, Edition of 60
49.2 x 56.8 cms (19 1/2 x 22 1/2 ins)
RM17035
CR 26...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
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Lithograph
Stoneness of Stone
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
The Stoneness of the Stone
Edition 75
1974
Lithograph on light gray Twinrocker handmade paper laminated to medium gray Twinrocker handmade paper
104.1 x 76.2 cms (4...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
Materials
Lithograph
Paris Suite 4 (Winter)
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Paris Suite IV (Winter)
1980
Lithograph on J.B. Green handmade paper, Edition of 60
47 x 45.7 cms (18.5 x 18 ins)
RM17036
CR 267
18 1/2 ...
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1980s Robert Motherwell Art
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Lithograph
Paris Suite 2 (Summer)
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Paris Suite II (Summer)
1980
Lithograph on J.B. Green handmade paper, Edition of 60
49.2 x 41 cms (19 1/2 x 16 ins)
RM17034
CR 265
Sign...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
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Lithograph
In White with Green Stripe
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Rober Motherwell
In White with Green Stripe
1987
Lithograph, relief print, embossing and collage
86.4 x 61 cms (34 x 24 ins)
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
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Lithograph
Lyric Suite: Liberté Toute Entière No. 3
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Black ink with orange bleed on rice paper
22.9 x 27.9 cms (9 x 11 ins)
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20th Century Robert Motherwell Art
Materials
Ink
Lyric Suite
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Brown ink with orange bleed on rice paper
22.9 x 27.9 cms (9 x 11 ins)
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20th Century Robert Motherwell Art
Materials
Ink
Gesture Series (A)
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on paper
77.5 x 57.2 cms (30 1/2 x 22 1/2 ins)
The composition of this work anticipates the 1971 lithograph Samurai.
Throughout his career Motherwell was drawn to automatis...
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
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Acrylic
Lyric Suite
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Ink on rice paper
27.9 x 22.9 cms (11 x 9 ins)
Category
20th Century Robert Motherwell Art
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Ink
Green Gauloises
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Acrylic, graphite and printed paper collage on board
42.6 x 36.8 cms (16 3/4 x 14 1/2 ins)
This is the only collage in which Motherwell used a green package from Gauloises Caporal D...
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
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Mixed Media
Lyric Suite
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Ink on rice paper
27.9 x 22.9 cms (11 x 9 ins)
Category
20th Century Robert Motherwell Art
Materials
Ink
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)
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
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Acrylic
Lyric Suite (Brown No. 4)
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Ink on rice paper
27.9 x 22.9 cms (11 x 9 ins)
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20th Century Robert Motherwell Art
Materials
Ink
Open Study (White Line on Beige No. 2)
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Acrylic and graphite on paper
77.5 x 55.9 cms (30 1/2 x 22 ins)
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1960s Robert Motherwell Art
Materials
Acrylic
Frontispiece from" A la Pintura"
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A print by Robert Motherwell. "Frontispiece from 'A la Pintura'" is an aquatint executed in blue and brown and depicts the writing A la Pintura below a small blue rectangle by Post War artist Robert Motherwell. Signed lower right, in ink, "Robert Motherwell 1972...
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1970s Post-War Robert Motherwell Art
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Aquatint
Abstract Composition - Original color Etching and Aquatint - 1967
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Paris, FR
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 ...
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1960s Abstract Robert Motherwell Art
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Etching, Aquatint
Roth-Handle
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
CR 168
Paper:Auvergne à la Main Richard de Bas handmade paper; offset-printed Roth Händle cigarette label
Signature:Signed "RM" in pencil upper right
Inscriptions:Numbered in pencil ...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
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Aquatint
Gesture I (State I)
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Aquatint, lift-ground etching and aquatint on J.B. Green paper
89.5 x 66.7 cms (35 1/4 x 26 1/4 ins)
Edition of 75
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
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Color, Lithograph
Poet II - Lithograph, Abstract Print, 20th Century by Robert Motherwell
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Edition of 35
75.6 x 53.7 cms (29.76 x 21.14 ins)
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
Materials
Lithograph
Octavio Paz Suite: Red Samurai
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Lithograph, linoleum block print, and chine appliqué, Edition of 50
CR 435
Paper:Arches paper; Japanese Masa Dosa handmade paper
Production Sequence:4 colors (including 1 colored pap...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
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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
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
Materials
Etching
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 ...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
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Color, Screen
ST. MICHAEL III
By Robert Motherwell
Located in Portland, ME
Motherwell, Robert. ST. MICHAEL III. Dedalus 237, Belknap 206, Tyler Graphics 398. Lithograph and screenprint in colors, 1979. One of 20 Artist's Proofs in addition to the edition of...
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1970s American Modern Robert Motherwell Art
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Lithograph, Screen
Carnegie Hall
By Robert Motherwell
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork, titled "Carnegie Hall," from the suite New York, New York, 1982, is an original color lithograph with silkscreen and embossing by American ...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Robert Motherwell Art
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Lithograph, Screen
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