Robert Motherwell
Alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell is considered one of the great American Abstract Expressionist painters. His esteemed intellect not only undergirded his gorgeous, expressive paintings—frequently featuring bold black shapes against fields of color—but also made Motherwell one of the leading writers, theorists, and advocates of the New York School. He forged close friendships with the European Surrealists and other intellectuals over his interests in poetry and philosophy, and as such served as a vital link between the pre-war avant-garde in Europe and its post-war counterpart in New York, establishing automatism and psychoanalysis as central concerns of American abstraction. "It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous," Motherwell said. "It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.
Elegy Fragment II
1985
Etching and aquatint on Georges Duchêne Hawthorne of Larroque handmade paper
34.5 x 24 inches (sheet)
Published by the artist in collaboration with Tyler Graphics, Bedford Village, NY
Catalogue raisonné, Engberg/Banach, 360; Belknap, 328
An artist’s proof impression aside from the edition of 52
Signed and numbered in pencil with artist's blind stamp
SOLD
Elegy Fragment I
1985
Etching and aquatint on Georges Duchêne Hawthorne of Larroque handmade paper
34.5 x 24 inches (sheet)
Published by the artist in collaboration with Tyler Graphics, Bedford Village, NY
Catalogue raisonné, Engberg/Banach, 359; Belknap, 327
Edition of 18
Signed and numbered in pencil with artist's blind stamp
SOLD
Delta
1982
Etching and aquatint on German Etching paper
26.75 x 31.75 inches (sheet)
Published by the artist in collaboration with Petersburg Press, London and New York
Catalogue raisonné, Engberg/Banach, 290; Belknap, 255
Edition of 48
Signed and numbered in pencil with artist's blind stamp
SOLD
Harvest with Blue Bottom (Summer Lights)
1973
Lithograph with hand torn collage on Georges Duchêne Hawthorne of Larroque handmade paper
36 x 18 inches (sheet)
Publisher, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
Printer, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
Catalogue raisonné, Engberg/Banach, 143
Edition of 55
An artist’s proof impression signed and annotated in pencil with teh artist’s and printer’s chop marks
SOLD