Robert Motherwell - Evening & Day Editions London Wednesday, September 14, 2022 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Acquired directly from the publisher by the present owner circa 1975

  • Literature

    Siri Engberg and Joan Banach 79, 80, 84, 85, 86, 87
    Dorothy Belknap 50, 51, 55, 56, 57, 58

  • 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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The Basque Suite: six plates (E. & B. 79,-80, 84-87, B. 50-51, 55-58)

1971
Six screenprints in colours, on J.B. Green paper, with full margins.
all I. approx. 56.5 x 43.5 cm (22 1/4 x 17 1/8 in.)
all S. approx. 103.5 x 71.8 cm (40 3/4 x 28 1/4 in.)

All signed with initials, annotated 'artist's proof' and lettered variously in pencil, with the artist's blindstamp (the edition was 150, and an unrecorded number of lettered artist's proofs), published by Marlborough Graphics Inc., New York, all unframed.

Estimate
£7,000 - 9,000 

Sold for £17,640

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Evening & Day Editions

London Auction 14 - 15 September 2022