Robert Motherwell
(1915 - 1991)
Previously Sold Works
ROBERT MOTHERWELL
The Red Queen (Belknap 414; Engberg & Banach 476)
aquatint and etching with collage
signed with initials and numbered 5/40 in the lower margin. Publisher: Robert Motherwell, New York, released by Waddington Graphics Ltd. London. Printer: Catherine Mosely, in the artist’s studio, Greenwich.
23.625 x 17.75 ins ( 60 x 45.1 cms ) ( plate size )
Auction Estimate: $9,000.00 - $12,000.00
Price Realized $13,200.00
Sale date: June 28th 2022
ROBERT MOTHERWELL
Palo Alto (Belknap 154; Engberg & Banach 218; Gemini 798)
colour lithograph
signed and numbered 31/40 in the lower margin. Publisher: Gemini G.E.L. Los Angeles
30 x 18 ins ( 76.2 x 45.7 cms ) ( image )
Auction Estimate: $4,500.00 - $6,000.00
Price Realized $4,680.00
Sale date: April 19th 2022
ROBERT MOTHERWELL
Harvest, with Orange Stripe, from Summer Light Series (Belknap 127)
colour lithograph with collage on hawthorne of larroque handmade paper
signed, inscribed “Gemini II” with the publisher’s blindstamp in the lower margin; with the publisher’s inkstamp on the reverse. This impression is one of three Gemini proofs aside from the numbered edition of fifty-five plus twelve artist’s proofs in Roman numerals
36 x 18.25 ins ( 91.4 x 46.4 cms ) ( sheet )
Auction Estimate: $2,500.00 - $4,000.00
Price Realized $2,400.00
Sale date: June 27th 2023
ROBERT MOTHERWELL
Basque Suite C (Belknap 55; Engberg & Banach 84)
silkscreen
signed and numbered 66/150 in the margin lower right; signed upper right in the plate; titled and dated 1973 on a gallery label on the reverse; Printer: Kelpra Studio, Ltd., London; Publisher: Marlborough Graphics, New York
29.25 x 23 ins ( 74.3 x 58.4 cms ) ( sight )
Auction Estimate: $1,500.00 - $2,500.00
Price Realized $2,280.00
Sale date: February 23rd 2021
ROBERT MOTHERWELL
Pauillac #1, from Summer Light Series (Belknap 119)
arjomari paper; château latour wine label; tan ingres paper; black arches paper
signed, numbered 81/92 and inscribed “Gemini II” with the publisher’s blindstamp in the lower right
35.25 x 23.5 ins ( 89.5 x 59.7 cms ) ( sheet )
Auction Estimate: $2,000.00 - $4,000.00
Price Realized $1,440.00
Sale date: November 7th 2023
R. Motherwell Biography
(1915 - 1991)
Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991) was an American abstract expressionist painter, printmaker, and editor. He was one of the youngest of the New York School, which also included Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko.
Trained in philosophy, Motherwell became an artist, regarded as among the most articulate of the abstract expressionist painters. He was known for his series of abstract paintings and prints which touched on political, philosophical and literary themes.
