Robert Motherwell | Gestural Prints

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Note: The parenthetical numbering after each title refers to the Robert Motherwell Catalogue Raisonné numbering of each image. The parenthetical CR number refers to the complete Catalogue Raisonné by Siri Engberg.

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AIRLESS BLACK (CR 311), 1981-83
Lithograph, 15 x 25.75 inches, Edition of 98
$2,000.
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ALBERTI ELEGY (CR 288), 1982
Lithograph and chine applique
10 x 12.25 inches
Edition 78 of 100
$5,000.
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AUTOMATISM A (CR 19), 1965-66
Lithograph, 28 x 21 inches, Edition of 100
$7,500.
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BEAU GESTE IV (CR 483), 1989
Lithograph, 22 x 15 inches, Edition of XV
$2,000.




BEAU GESTE VIII (CR 487), 1989
Lithograph, 22 x 15 inches
$2,500.




BLACK SEA (CR 241), 1979, 1979-80
Lift-ground etching and aquatint on cream Stonehenge paper
31.75 x inches, Edition of 40
$6,000.
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BLACK CONCENTRATED (CR 312), 1983
Lithograph
15 x 37.75 inches, edition of 98
$3,500.
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BLACK ON BLACK (CR 222), 1978
Lithograph with Chine collé, 27.75 x 22.14 inches, Edition of 58
$4,000.
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THE CAVERN (CR 491), 1989
Carborundum plate print 25.5 x 31 inches, Edition of 23
$4.250. f
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CALLIGRAPHIC STUDY II (CR 195), 1976
Lift-ground etching and aquatint 23 x 18.5 inches, Edition of 30
$4.750. f
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DALTON PRINT (CR 239), 1979
Lithograph, 26 x 20 inches, Edition of 150
$1,800.
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DANCE II (CR 231), 1978
Lift-ground and aquatint etching on J.B. Green paper 25.5 x 40.75 inches, Edition of 30
$4,000.



DANCE III (CR 232), 1978
Lift-ground and aquatint etching on J.B. Green paper 27.5 x 30.5 inches, Edition of 50, AP X/X
$5,000.




DELTA (CR 290), 1982
Aquatint lift-ground etching on Geman Etching paper 26.75 x 31.75 inches, Edition of 48
$5,300. f.



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LAMENT FOR LORCA (CR 517), 1991
Etching on buff Arches paper 26.75 x 30.5 inches, Edition of 50, HC
$3,400.
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LOS ANGELES SUN (CR 254), 1979-80
Lift-ground etching 33 x 28 inches, Edition of 25
$4,800. f
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MUSIC FOR LONG POINT (CR 442), 1988
Lithograph with chine colle
22 x 15 inches
$3,000.




PERSIAN II (CR 353), 1985
Aquatint, lift-ground etching and aquatint with soft-ground on Whitman paper 27.75 x 23 inches, Edition of 70
$3,800. f
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PRIMAL SIGN I (CR 256), 1980
Lift-ground etching and aquatint on cream Stonehenge paper 28.5 x 21.5 inches,Edition of 60
$3,000.




PRIMAL SIGN II (CR 268), 1980
2-color etching 30.5 x 21.5 inches, Edition of 45
$2,500.
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PRIMAL SIGN V, (CR 280), 1981
Aquatint, lift-ground, and aquatint on Arches cover
33.5 x 25.75 inches, Edition of 28
$4,500.
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PRIMAL SIGN VI, (CR 281), 1981
Aquatint, lift-ground, and aquatint on Arches cover
33.5 x 25.75 inches, Edition of 32
$4,000.




RED SEA II (CR 242), 1979
Lift-ground etching and aquatint on cream Stonehenge paper
31.75 x 26.25 inches, Edition of 100 AP XII/XX
$12,000.




RED SEA III (CR 316), 1983
Etching with aquatint
35.5 x 18.5 inches, Edition of 70
$18,000.




RITE OF PASSAGE III (CR 250), 1979-80
Lithograph and Chine collé, 24.75 X 34 inches, Edition of 98
$6,000.




SEASIDE STUDIO (CR 495), 1990
Aquatint, etching 31.5 x 27.75 inches, Edition of 32
$5,300.




SIGNS ON COPPER (CR 286), 1981
Aquatint, lift-ground etching and aquatint on German etching paper
26.75 x 31.75 inches, Edition of 53
$10,800 f.




SIRENS I (CR 443), 1988
Aquatint, lift-ground etching and soft-engraving on Arches paper
22.25 x 26 inches, Edition of 49
$5,000.



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SIRENS II (CR 444), 1988
Aquatint, lift-ground etching, and soft-ground etching and aquatint
22.5 x 26 inches, Edition of 69
$5,000.




ST. MARKS (CR 273), 1980
Lithograph, 24.5 x 19 inches
$2,500.
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ST MICHAEL III (CR 237), 1979
Color lithograph and screen-print
41.5 x 31.5 inches, Edition of 99
$7,000.
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STEPHEN'S IRON CROWN ETCHED (CR 292), 1982
Aquatint and lift-ground etching on German Etching paper 25.25 x 28.25 inches,Edition of 66
$6,000.




THREE FORMS II (CR 478), 1989
Carborundum on gray HMP handmade paper, 18 x 22.5 inches, Edition of 30 V/VII
$3,500.
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THE WANDERERS (CR 364), 1985
Aquatint, lift-ground etching and aquatint on Whatman paper
23.25 x 27 inches, Edition of 35, AP VIII/VIII
$3,500.
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YELLOW FLIGHT (CR 367), 1986
Aquatint etching 18 x 32.25 inches, Edition of 45
$4,500.
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UNTITLED (CR 225), 1978
Lithograph with Chine collé, 27.5 x 23.5 inches, Edition of 46
$5,000.
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UNTITLED (CR 226), 1978
Lithograph and chine colle, 29 7/8 x 22 3/8 inches
$3,500.





UNTITLED (CR 516), 1991
Etching with aquatint, 20 x 22.75 inches, Edition of 40
$2,500.
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UNTITLED (CR 535), 1991
Etching on buff Fabiano paper, 26.5 x 30.5 inches, Edition of 30
$2,000.




UNTITLED (CR 536), 1991
Aquatint on Somerset paper 21.25 x 35.75 inches, Edition of 30
$2,000.




UNTITLED (CR 534), 1991
Aquatint on Somerset paper 28.75 x 34.75 inches, Edition of 30
$2,000.
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Robert Motherwell Catalogue Raisonné
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Price: $95.

A few of the final prints completed by Robert Motherwell prior to his passing are on this page. These prints represent the best of the last three years of his production, demonstrating the artist’s diverse accomplishments as a master printmaker. Many of these, being among the last of his prints, have been in the market place for a very short time and are therefore exceptional values. As an unrelated group of prints from a relatively short period of his life, they serve as beautiful examples of the energy and expression found in his strongest works.

Although the last prints, these fall into his classic suites of elegiac images, automatic gestures and faux-collage prints. The themes range from roughly gestural to elegantly calligraphic images and from spontaneous to highly composed forms. The notable innovation in this group would be Motherwell’s "Hollow Man" suite of images (begun in the mid-1980s) which involve a hollowed-out structure that relates to his "Elegies" but are on a more human scale.

Out of a total of 464 signed editions produced by Motherwell, only four editions are estate stamped (instead of signed by the artist). As with the latest series of prints published for Richard Diebenkorn and Francis Bacon, a few of Motherwell’s prints from the last year of his life were released by his estate as unsigned editions because they were "in process" at the time of the artist’s death and the plates were completed to the artist’s approved standards and expectations. Motherwell began these images in his Greenwich studio in the fall of 1990, and the images had been proofed by his personal printer, Catherine Mosley, in the late spring of 1991 when he left for Provincetown. Expecting to return in the fall to sign them as complete editions, Motherwell died July 16, 1991 at the age of 76.