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"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 -
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Robert Motherwell
Bastos, 1975Lithograph on white Arjom ari mould-made paper
158.4 x 101.6 cms (62 7/16 x 40 ins)
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Robert Motherwell
Gesture IV, 1976-77Lift-ground etching with aquatint in colours on J.B. Green paper
Plate size: 49.8 x 40 cms (19 5/8 x 15 3/4 ins)
Sheet size: 88.9 x 66.6 cms (35 x 26 1/4 ins)
Edition of 100 -
Robert Motherwell
In White With Green Stripe , 1987Lithograph, relief print, embossing and collage
86.4 x 61 cms (34 x 24 ins)
Edition:75
Proofs:1 archive proof
16 AP, numbered 1/16-16/16
1 CP
5 CTP
3 presentation proofs
2 PP
1 RTP
Publisher:Tyler Graphics Ltd., Mount Kisco, New York
Printer:Roger Campbell and Lee Funderburg, Tyler Graphics Ltd. -
Robert Motherwell
Perpetual Summer, 1985Colour etching, aquatint, and collage on Whatman paper
60 x 42.9 cms (23.6 x 16.9 ins)
Edition of 26 -
Robert Motherwell
Red Sea I, 1976Colour etching and aquatint on Arches paper
Paper size: 105.4 x 74 cms (41 1/2 x 29 1/8 ins)
Plate size: 60.3 x 50.5 cms (23 3/4 x 19 7/8 ins)
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Robert Motherwell
Samurai II, 1980Lithograph and chine appliqué
144.8 x 62.2 cms (57 x 24.5 ins)
Edition of 49
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Catalogue
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. -
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Robert Motherwell
Africa Suite: Africa 1, 1970Screenprint on J.B.Green paper
103.5 x 71.8 cms (40.75 x 28.25 ins)
Edition:150
Proofs:AP (unrecorded)
other proofs (unrecorded)
Publisher:Marlborough Graphics, Inc., New York
Printer:Chris Prater, Kelpra Studio, London -
Robert Motherwell
Africa Suite: Africa 6, 1970Screenprint on J.B Green paper
103.5 x 71.8 cms (40.75 x 29.25 ins)
Edition of 150 -
Robert Motherwell
Africa Suite: Africa 7, 1970Screenprint on J.B. Green paper
103.51 x 71.76 cms (40 3/4 x 28 1/4 ins)
Edition of 150
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Robert Motherwell
Africa Suite: Africa 8, 1970Screenprint on J.B. Green paper
103.5 x 71.8 cms (40 3/4 x 28 1/4 ins)
Edition of 150 -
Robert Motherwell
Africa Suite: Africa 9, 1970Screenprint on J.B Green paper
103.5 x 71.8 cms (40.75 x 28.25 ins)
Edition of 150
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“Print-making is my hobby, my mistress…When the edition is finally o.k., and goes to press and you see the first fresh print, it is with ecstasy. All struggle has vanished. There is a virgin birth, fresh and perfect, like Venus arising from the sea. Good prints, properly taken care of, never lose this virgin beauty, no more than medieval stained glass.”
Robert Motherwell, 1977
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Robert Motherwell, Summer Sign (1990)
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Robert Motherwell
Paris Suite I (Spring), 1980Lithograph on J.B. Green handmade paper
48.9 x 48.9 cms (19 1/4 x 19 1/4 ins)
Edition of 60 -
Robert Motherwell
Paris Suite II (Summer), 1980Lithograph on J.B. Green handmade paper
49.2 x 41 cms (19 1/2 x 16 ins)
Edition of 60 -
Robert Motherwell
Paris Suite III (Autumn), 1980Lithograph on J.B. Green handmade paper
49.2 x 56.8 cms (19 1/2 x 22 1/2 ins)
Edition of 60 -
Robert Motherwell
Paris Suite IV (Winter), 1980Lithograph on J.B. Green handmade paper
49.2 x 56.8 cms (19 1/2 x 22 1/2 ins)
Edition of 60
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