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  • Literature

    Siri Engberg and Joan Banach, eds., Robert Motherwell: the Complete Prints 1940-1991: Catalogue Raisonne, New York, 2003, no. 494

  • Artist Biography

    Robert Motherwell

    American • 1915 - 1991

    One of the youngest proponents of the Abstract Expressionist movement, Robert Motherwell rose to critical acclaim with his first solo exhibition at Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century gallery in 1944. Not only was Motherwell one of the major practicing Abstract Expressionist artists, he was, in fact, the main intellectual driving force within the movement—corralling fellow New York painters such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Hans Hoffman and William Baziotes into his circle. Motherwell later coined the term the "New York School", a designation synonymous to Abstract Expressionism that loosely refers to a wide variety of non-objective work produced in New York between 1940 and 1960.

    During an over five-decade-long career, Motherwell created a large and powerful body of varied work that includes paintings, drawings, prints and collages. Motherwell's work is most generally characterized by simple shapes, broad color contrasts and a dynamic interplay between restrained and gestural brushstrokes. Above all, it demonstrates his approach to art-making as a response to the complexity of lived, and importantly felt, experience.

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Summer Sign

signed with the artist's initials and numbered "RM PP 1/2" lower right
Carborundum etching on Whatman paper
image 17 3/4 x 23 1/3 in. (45.1 x 59.3 cm.)
sheet 25 x 30 3/4 in. (63.5 x 78.1 cm.)

Executed in 1990, this work is printer's proof 1 from an edition of 38 plus 10 artist's proofs and 2 printer's proofs, published by Waddington Graphics, Ltd., London.

Estimate
$3,000 - 5,000 

Sold for $3,750

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Artsy x Phillips: Wrapped/Unwrapped

Online Auction 28 November - 12 December 2018