Robert Motherwell - Contemporary Art Day Sale London Wednesday, October 10, 2012 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    The Dedalus Foundation, New York
    Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto
    Hillsboro Fine Art Gallery, Dublin
    Private Collection, Ireland

  • Catalogue Essay

    This work will be included in the forthcoming Robert Motherwell: Paintings and Collages, A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941–1991, to be published by Yale University Press, October 2012.

  • 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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Untitled

1979
oil and graphite on board
51 x 66.5 cm (20 1/8 x 26 1/8 in)
Initialled and dated 'RM 6 May 79' upper left.

Estimate
£20,000 - 30,000 

Sold for £25,000

Contemporary Art Day Sale

11 October 2012
London