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  • Literature

    Siri Engberg and Joan Banach 445.1-.22

  • 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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Ulysses

1988
The complete set of40 etchings (comprised of22 line etchings (20 in colors) and 18 etched Roman numerals), on Johannot paper, with full margins, bound (as issued) with novel by James Joyce, with accompanying booklet of an interview with the artist by David Hayman,
13 5/8 x 11 in (34.6 x 27.9 cm)
signed and numbered in pencil on the limitation page, copy #116 of 150 (there were also 25 hors commerce copies), published by Arion Press, San Francisco, a few pale stains on the interview booklet cover, otherwise all in very good condition, contained in original blue silk-covered cover with leather trim (minor soiling) and matching slipcase (slightly faded).

Estimate
$4,000 - 6,000 

Sold for $6,000

Modern & Contemporary Editions

Editions
25 January 2012
New York