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Untitled 62
Located in Chicago, IL
Untitled 62
September 25, 2021
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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Untitled 61
Located in Chicago, IL
Untitled 61
September 28, 2021
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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Untitled 59
Located in Chicago, IL
Untitled 59
January 31, 2021
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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Untitled 58
Located in Chicago, IL
Untitled 58
2021
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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Untitled 56
Located in Chicago, IL
Untitled 56
2021
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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Untitled 60
Located in Chicago, IL
Untitled 60
October 6, 2021
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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Untitled 54
Located in Chicago, IL
Untitled 54
October 3, 2021
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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Untitled 53
Located in Chicago, IL
Untitled 53
October 1, 2023
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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Untitled 49
Located in Chicago, IL
Untitled 49
2019
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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Untitled 47
Located in Chicago, IL
Untitled 47
2014
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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Untitled 46
Located in Chicago, IL
Untitled 46
2014
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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Untitled 45
Located in Chicago, IL
Untitled 45
2014
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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Untitled 44
Located in Chicago, IL
Untitled 44
2014
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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Untitled 43
Located in Chicago, IL
Untitled 43
2014
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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Untitled 42
Located in Chicago, IL
Untitled 42
2014
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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Untitled 40
Located in Chicago, IL
Untitled 40
2014
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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Untitled 39
Located in Chicago, IL
Untitled 39
October 18, 2022
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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Untitled 37
Located in Chicago, IL
Untitled 37
October 29, 2022
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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Untitled 36
Located in Chicago, IL
Untitled 36
October 27, 2022
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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Untitled 35
Located in Chicago, IL
Untitled 35
October 30, 2022
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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Untitled 32
Located in Chicago, IL
Untitled 32
July 8, 2022
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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Untitled 30
Located in Chicago, IL
Untitled 30
November 21, 2022
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
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Mixed Media
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Untitled 29
Located in Chicago, IL
Untitled 29
October 10, 2022
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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Untitled 28
Located in Chicago, IL
Untitled 28
June 27, 2022
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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Untitled 27
Located in Chicago, IL
Untitled 27
August 1, 2022
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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Untitled 26
Located in Chicago, IL
Untitled 26
September 3, 2022
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2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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Untitled 25
Located in Chicago, IL
Untitled 25
July 1, 2022
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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Untitled 24
Located in Chicago, IL
Untitled 23
July 2, 2022
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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Untitled 23
Located in Chicago, IL
Untitled 23
July 2, 2022
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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Untitled 22
Located in Chicago, IL
Untitled 22
July 15, 2022
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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Untitled 21
Located in Chicago, IL
Untitled 21
July 14, 2022
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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Untitled 19
Located in Chicago, IL
Untitled 19
November 7, 2022
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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Untitled 18
Located in Chicago, IL
Untitled 18
November 5, 2022
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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Untitled 17
Located in Chicago, IL
Untitled 17
November 1, 2022
Category
2010s Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
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Elegy Sketch
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Elegy Sketch
1980-ca. 1984
Acrylic on canvas board
15 x 29.5 cms (5 7/8 x 11 5/8 ins)
RM-P80-2500
P1008
An early version of this work was photographed in 1980 (Sloman photo no. 1217). Studio photographs show that Motherwell modified the black forms and added the white lines sometime around 1984, without changing the overall composition.
Exhibited:
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Robert Motherwell, 1984, no. 106.
Manny Silverman Gallery...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Black Open
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Black Open
1973
Acrylic on canvas
182.9 x 91.4 cms (72 x 36 ins)
RM9611
P735
Motherwell's fascination with black started when he was wo...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Open No. 45: In Blue with Brown
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)
Open No. 45: In Blue with Brown
1969
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas
55.9 x 71.1 cms (22 x 28 ins)
RM9741
P447
Exhibited:
Art Galleries, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Awards, 1970, no. 55.
Galerie Templon, Paris, Robert Motherwell Open...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Alberti Suite No. 8
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Alberti Suite No. 8
1970
Acrylic on canvas
101.6 x 75.6 cms (40 x 29 3/4 ins)
RM9811
P526
One of the several variants Motherwell painted within the Open series. I...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
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Dr. Zhivago
s Country Study
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Dr. Zhivago's Country Study
1975
Acrylic on canvas board
14 x 45.7 cms (5 1/2 x 18 ins)
RM9816
P853
Recto, upper left: Motherwell \ 75
Verso: "Dr Zhivago's Country...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
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Untitled (Open in Yellow, Black and Blue)
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Untitled (Open in Yellow, Black and Blue)
1970
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas board
25.4 x 61 cms (10 x 24 ins)
RM9819
P588
Signed lower right (recto)
Artist's studio number P74-290
Provenance:
Dedalus Foundation, New York...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Untitled (Red Open)
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Untitled (Red Open)
ca. 1970
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas board
17.8 x 22.8 cms (7 x 9 ins)
RM9923
P575
Artist's studio number P71-286
Signed (verso)
Provenance...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic
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Untitled (Ochre Open)
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)
Untitled (Ochre Open)
1972
Acrylic on Upson board
60.6 x 24.5 cms (23 7/8 x 9 5/8 ins)
RM9997
P666
Recto, upper right: RM \ 72
Verso not signed, not da...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Price Upon Request
Shem the Penman #18
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Shem the Penman #18
1983
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas
25.4 x 35.5 cms (10 x 13 3/4 ins)
RM10044
P1068
Signed upper left and on reverse.
Provenance:
Dedalus Foun...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Open Untitled (Yellow)
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Open Untitled (Yellow)
1981
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas
30.5 x 40.6 cms (12 x 16 ins)
RM10045
P1019
Recto upper left: RM
Verso not signed,not dated
Artist's stu...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic
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Great Wall of China No. 4
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)
Great Wall of China No. 4
1971
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas
152.4 x 101.6 cms (60 x 40 ins)
RM10101
P617
This work is part of the artist's Great Wall of China series, of which there are only five paintings, all of which are in private hands. Painted on a traditionally primed canvas, it is an exploration of the tension between foreground and background. The U-shaped forms in this series of paintings are closely related to the paintings in Motherwell's Open series of which there are a greater number of paintings and drawings.
Great Wall of China series refer to a Franz Kafka short story about the Chinese landmark, which certainly served as a dividing line in its time, and perhaps also to contemporaneous events involving China, such as Henry Kissinger...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic
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Premonition Open, with Flesh over Grey
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Premonition Open, with Flesh over Grey, 1974, belongs to an extended series of works that came to be called the Opens and which came about by a happy accident. Leaning a finished can...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic Polymer, Graphite
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Two Figures No. 12
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Two Figures No. 12
1958
Oil on paperboard
19.1 x 24.1 cms (7 1/2 x 9 1/2 ins)
RM12376
W41
Motherwell painted this work in Saint-Jean-de-Luz during the summer of 19...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Price Upon Request
Untitled
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)
Untitled
1990
Acrylic and coloured pencil on panel
40.6 x 50.8 cms (16 x 20 ins)
RM13143
P1195
The composition of this painting is based on the left ...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel, Color Pencil
Price Upon Request
Shem the Penman #19
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Shem the Penman #19
1983
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas
25.4 x 35.6 cms (10 x 14 ins)
RM13642
P1069
Recto, upper left: RM
Verso: R. Motherwell \ 1983
Verso (on b...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic
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The Studio
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
The Studio
1987
Acrylic and charcoal on canvas
152.4 x 182.9 cms (60 x 72 ins)
RM13966
P1140
When Motherwell made The Studio, in 1987, he was nearing the end of an...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Open No. 126: In Beige with Blue
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell (1915-1991)
Open No. 126: In Beige with Blue
1970
Acrylic on canvas
61 x 76.2 cms (24 x 30 ins)
RM13967
P533
The dedication on the verso of this painting is to the artist and editor Alexander Liberman (1912-1999) and his wife Tatiana (1906-1991).
Signed, titled, dated twice 1970 and inscribed Merry Xmas to Tatiana & Alex Liberman from their friend Bob Motherwell on the stretcher.
Provenance:
Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Liberman, New York (gift of the artist).
High Museum of Art, Atlanta (gift of the above in 1991).
Sotheby's New York, 14 November 2012, lot 138.
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London (acquired at the above sale).
Exhibited:
Galerie Templon, Paris, Robert Motherwell Open...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 163
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 163
1979-82
Acrylic and Conte crayon on board
59.1 x 74.3 cms (23 1/4 x 29 1/4 ins)
RM14159
P1061
Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 163 is a fine example of Robert Motherwell’s most acclaimed body of work, the Elegies to the Spanish Republic. As important as Barnett Newman’s zips and Jackson Pollock’s drips for their revolutionary contribution to art history, the Elegies are Motherwell’s most extensive series; he executed over 140 paintings using this motif, beginning in 1948 until his death in 1991. Nearly every major museum collection, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, have in their permanent collection an Elegy to the Spanish Republic. Intended to be read as a lamentation or funeral song after the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), Motherwell’s Elegies to the Spanish Republic are a lyrical and poetic memorial to the immense human loss and suffering endured during these harrowing years.
Motherwell was a young student of twenty-one when the horrors of the Spanish Civil War commenced in 1936, and he would later reflect that it was the most “moving political event” of his youth. In 1939, the Spanish Civil War concluded with the fall of Spain’s democratically elected socialist government, which was deposed by a fascist coalition led by dictator Francisco Franco, whose dictatorship would persist until 1975. In 1948 nearly a decade after the end of the Spanish Civil War, Motherwell created his first Elegy with a small drawing to accompany a poem by Harold Rosenberg. Over the next four decades, Motherwell would pursue this same structural and thematic motif relentlessly; taken as a whole, the Elegies confirm the resounding impact that this war had on the young artist, and indeed stand as a powerful monument to the overwhelming loss during and in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. Motherwell stated: “I meant the word 'elegy' in the title. I was twenty-one in 1936, when the Spanish Civil War began…The Spanish Civil War was even more to my generation than Vietnam was to be thirty years later to its generation, and should not be forgotten, even though la guerre est finie.” (David Craven in Joan M...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Conté, Acrylic, Board
Price Upon Request
Two Figures No. 7
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Two Figures No.7
1958
Oil on paperboard mounted on board
18.9 x 23.9 cms (7 7/16 x 9 7/16 ins)
RM14236
W36
Motherwell painted this work in Saint-Jean-de-Luz during...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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Royal Dirge
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Royal Dirge
1972
Acrylic on canvas
182.2 x 137.2 cms (71 3/4 x 54 ins)
RM14402
P705
Signed and dated 72 upper left (recto)
Signed, titled and dated 27 October 1972 (verso)
Artist's studio number P72-5207
Provenance:
Lawrence Rubin Gallery, New York.
Solomon Byron Smith, Lake Forest (acquired in 1973).
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (bequest from the above in 1980).
Christie's, New York, 9 November 2011.
Galerie Sho Contemporary Art, Tokyo.
Private collection, acquired from the above.
Sotheby's New York, 14 November 2013.
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, 2013 .
Exhibited:
Galerie Templon, Paris, Robert Motherwell Open...
Category
1970s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 60
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 60
1960
Oil on paperboard
17.8 x 23.8 cms (7 x 9 3/8 ins)
RM14624
W111
Provenance:
Harriet Mnuchin Weiner, 1961.
Christie's, New ...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Price Upon Request
Homage to Catalonia
By Robert Motherwell
Located in London, GB
Robert Motherwell
Homage to Catalonia
1985
Acrylic on canvas
61 x 91.4 cms (24 x 36 ins)
RM14749
P1116
This painting was begun in 1985 as a work from the Hollow Men series. By 1986 ...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
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Untitled 296L7
By Dan Christensen
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Following the dominant Abstract Expressionist wave of post-WWII, which decried realism in favor of non-representational forms, the second-generation Abstract Expressionists pointed t...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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Press Play
By Peter Halley
Located in Rye, NY
Halley's paintings explore both the physical and psychological structures of social space; he connects the hermetic language of geometric abstraction—influenced by artists such as Ba...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Price Upon Request
Brave New Citizen
By Doug Frohman
Located in Rye, NY
Painted primarily in oil and encaustic with a cement trowel on wood panel and canvas, his work has been exhibited and collected across the US. In the midst of creating these mobile r...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
Price Upon Request
"Burst" Abstract Oil Painting
By Doug Frohman
Located in Rye, NY
Painted primarily in oil and encaustic with a cement trowel on wood panel and canvas, his work has been exhibited and collected across the US. In the midst of creating these mobile r...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
Price Upon Request
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