Robert Motherwell - Editions & Works on Paper New York Tuesday, April 16, 2024 | Phillips

Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 16 - 17 April

  • Provenance

    Carl Steele & Associates, Inc., Philadelphia
    Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1987

  • Literature

    Tyler Graphics 453
    Siri Engberg and Joan Banach 339

  • 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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Robert Motherwell

Water's Edge (T. 453, E. & B. 339)

1984
Lithograph and relief print in colors with embossing and collage, on TGL handmade and black German Etching mould-made papers, with full margins.
I. 27 3/4 x 22 7/8 in. (70.5 x 58.1 cm)
S. 33 1/8 x 26 1/2 in. (84.1 x 67.3 cm)
Signed and numbered 57/62 in pencil (there were also 12 artist's proofs in Roman numerals), published by Tyler Graphics, Ltd., Bedford Village, New York (with their blindstamp), framed.

Estimate
$4,000 - 6,000 

Sold for $7,620

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Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 16 - 17 April