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Robert Motherwell ‘Blue Gesture’ from Three Poems by Octavio Paz, 1987-1988
Lithograph, linoleum block print and chine applique
25 3/8 x 21 1/4 in.
Initialed and annotated in pencil (“RM” and “h.c.”)
Robert Motherwell (1915 - 1991)
American painter, printmaker and editor. He was one of the New York School (a phrase he coined), which also included Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Philip Guston.
Robert Motherwell was the youngest and most prolific of the group. Born in Aberdeen, Washington in 1915. His studies at Stanford and Harvard brought him into contact with the great American philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, who first challenged him with the notion of abstraction. What he took from Whitehead was the sense that abstraction was the process of peeling away the inessential and presenting the necessary.
He was the only one of the original abstract expressionists to enthusiastically embrace printmaking. He synthesized his unique abstract style, and the materials and technical characteristics of printmaking to create over 200 editions over the next 30 years.
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