Bernard Jacobson Gallery
Robert Motherwell: Elegy, Open and Collage

Robert Motherwell: Elegy, Open and Collage
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Throughout his long and distinguished career, Robert Motherwell produced a remarkable body of work that ranks among the most notable achievements in post-war American art. In addition to creating his celebrated paintings, drawings and collages, Motherwell was a renowned and innovative printmaker, producing more than 500 works.
Elegies, motifs from the open series, gestural prints and collages show the wide range of Motherwell’s art and the creativity in his printmaking which make him one of the most prolific and adventurous printmakers of his time.
Image: Robert Motherwell, Black with No Way Out, 1983

If an artist is really good, he adapts to the particular quality that an etching can do that nothing else can do. Or, a certain other quality that a Bavarian limestone in lithography has that nothing else has, including the best painting in the world. It's something different...an abnormal sensitivity to the quality of the medium.
-Robert Motherwell, 1984

Robert Motherwell
Black with No Way Out, 1983
Lithograph on white Tyler Graphics Ltd. (TGL) handmade paper
Edition of 98
38.1 x 95.5 cms (15 x 38 ins)
$35,000
Robert Motherwell
Game of Chance 1987
Aquatint, lithograph and collage on paper
Edition of 100
88.3 x 69.9 cms (34 3/4 x 27 1/.2 ins)
$15,000


Ken Tyler with Robert Motherwell working on "Lament for Lorca", Image: Kenneth Tyler Collection, National Gallery of Australia

Robert Motherwell
Red Sea I, 1976
Colour etching and aquatint on Arches
Edition of 100
105.4 x 74 cms (41 1/2 x 29 1/8 ins)
$20,000
Robert Motherwell
Untitled, 1975
Aquatint, lift-ground etching and aquatint, and soft-ground etching on buff Arches Cover paper
75.9 x 56.8 cms (29 7/8 x 22 3/8 ins)
$8,000


Robert Motherwell
Africa Suite: Africa 1, 1970
Screenprint on J.B.Green paper
103.5 x 71.8 cms (40.75 x 28.25 ins)
$7,500

Robert Motherwell " A survey of prints", exhibition at Bernard Jacobson Gallery 2020
Robert Motherwell
Gesture III, 1977
Brushed aquatint, lift-ground etching and aquatint on J.B. Green paper
Edition of 75
88.9 x 66.7 cms (35 x 26.3 ins)
$18,000


Robert Motherwell
The Wave, 1978
Soft-ground etching and chine collé
Edition of 60
78.1 x 65.4 cms (30.75 x 25.75 ins)
$6,000

Robert Motherwell " A survey of prints", exhibition at Bernard Jacobson Gallery 2020
Robert Motherwell
Untitled, 1978
Lithograph and chine collé
Edition of 24
73.7 x 64.8 cms (29 x 25 1/2 ins)
$6,000


Robert Motherwell
Summer Sign, 1990
Carborundum on Whatman paper
Edition of 38
84.1 x 78.7 cms (33 1/8 x 31 ins)
$12,000
Robert Motherwell
In White with Green Stripe, 1987
Lithograph, relief print, embossing and collage
Edition of 75
86.4 x 61 cms (34 x 24 ins)
$9,000

Robert Motherwell
Robert Motherwell was a major figure in the birth and development of Abstract Expressionism and the youngest member of the 'New York School', a term he coined, becoming very close to Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. His career spanned five decades during which time he created some of the most iconic images of the 20th century. A passionate advocate and articulate spokesman for Abstract Expressionism, he believed that ideas and emotions were best communicated through the bold forms and gestural lines of abstract art. He studied philosophy at Stanford University, art history at Columbia University under Meyer Shapiro, and obtained a doctorate from Harvard. His major series include the infamous Elegies to the Spanish Republic, the Beside the Sea series, the Lyric Suite, and the Open series. He has exhibited worldwide, and his work can be found in the collections of major art institutions including the Tate Gallery, London; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; Guggenheim, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and MOMA, New York; Paul J Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.
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