Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of American abstract painters that radically defined abstraction and established New York City as the center of the art world for the second half of the 20th century.
Motherwell was the unofficial spokesman of the New York School, writing and editing a journal, and lecturing on behalf of the movement, his fellow artists, and the merits of abstraction.
Motherwell's contribution to the art historical canon is undisputed. This recognition is especially imbued as a result of the achievements Motherwell pursued as a printmaker. Motherwell is one of the most experimental and courageous printmakers of the 20th century. He was always searching for new techniques to express and expand his ideas and aesthetic.
In this work we find exemplary Motherwell technique; a bold, abstract black shape is set against a powerful sfumato field of green-toned brown-red. While neutral colors are frequently used by Motherwell to accelerate the power of his black elements, here the background and black marks oscillate between foreground and background.
The dark brushstrokes are palpable, the work entirely textured. Elegant and raw, this print masterfully balances the sprits of abstract expressionism with minimalism.
Another impression of this piece is held in the collection of the Whitney, New York.
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Untitled
USA, 1973
Aquatint, lift-ground etching and aquatint on Arches Cover paper
Signed "Motherwell" in pencil, lower right
Numbered in pencil, lower right; Artist chop mark, lower right
Number 6 from an edition of 46
Published by Robert Motherwell
Printed by Catherine Mosley, artist's studio, Greenwich, Conneticut
41.5"H 24"W (sheet)
(framed)
Very good condition
Catalogue Raisonné: CR 138
Concordance: B 108
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