Robert Motherwell - Editions & Works on Paper New York Monday, October 24, 2022 | Phillips

Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 24 - 26 October 2022

  • Literature

    Gemini G.E.L. 472
    Siri Engberg and Joan Banach 148

  • Catalogue Essay

    The consignor intends to donate the proceeds to benefit the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College. Additional works are also included in the 20th Century & Contemporary Art Day sale on November 15th, 2022.

  • 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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Property of an Important Private Collector Sold to Benefit the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College

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Robert Motherwell

Pauillac #1, from Summer Light Series (G. 472, E. & B. 148)

1973
Lithograph in colors with collage and embossing, on Arjomari paper with full margins.
I. 32 1/4 x 17 3/4 in. (81.9 x 45.1 cm)
S. 36 1/4 x 23 3/4 in. (92.1 x 60.3 cm)
Signed and numbered 'ap X' in pencil (an artist's proof, the edition was 92), published by Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles (with their and the artist's blindstamps), framed.

Estimate
$2,000 - 4,000 

Sold for $2,394

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Editions & Works on Paper

New York Auction 24 - 26 October 2022