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Robert Motherwell
Beau geste pour Lucrèce (Beautiful Gesture for Lucrece) (E. & B. 480-485)
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- £2,000 - 3,000‡
£1,905
Lot Details
The complete portfolio of six lithographs in colours, on various papers, with full margins, with texts, title page and colophon, the sheets loose (as issued) all contained in the original red fabric-covered portfolio.
1989
all I. various
all S. 55.7 x 38.1 cm (21 7/8 x 15 in.)
portfolio 73 x 52.5 x 3.5 cm (28 3/4 x 20 5/8 x 1 3/8 in.)
all S. 55.7 x 38.1 cm (21 7/8 x 15 in.)
portfolio 73 x 52.5 x 3.5 cm (28 3/4 x 20 5/8 x 1 3/8 in.)
The prints all signed with initials and numbered 18/100 in pencil (there were also 25 in Roman numerals and 15 artist's proofs), published by the artist (with his blindstamp), all unframed.
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Robert Motherwell
American | B. 1915 D. 1991One 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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