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Robert Motherwell

Long Point Gallery: Music for Long Point; and Music for J.S. Bach (E. & B. 442 & 471)

Estimate
$2,000 - 4,000
$2,580
Lot Details
Two lithographs in colors, on Japanese Okawara handmade Chine collé and red Moriki handmade Chine collé to Arches Cover paper, with full margins.
1988 & 1989
Long Point Gallery I. 14 1/4 x 10 1/2 in. (36.2 x 26.7 cm)
Music for J.S. Bach I. 14 3/4 x 11 3/4 in. (37.5 x 29.8 cm)
Long Point Gallery S. 21 7/8 x 15 in. (55.6 x 38.1 cm)
Music for J.S. Bach S. 22 1/2 x 15 in. (57.2 x 38.1 cm)
Both signed and annotated 'h.c.' and 'ap II/XV' in pencil respectively (an hors commerce and an artist's proof, the editions were 30 and 35 with 5 and 12 artist's proofs), Long Point Gallery published by Long Point Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts and Music for J.S. Bach published the artist, printed in the United States, both framed.

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Robert Motherwell

American | B. 1915 D. 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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