ROBERT MOTHERWELL (1915 - 1991) - LAMENT FOR LORCA - 1991

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    Subject: Graphic work. Etching. Limited editions. Robert Motherwell.

    Production and year: Catherine Mosley, assisted by Janis Stemmermann, artist's studio, Greenwich, Connecticut. Distributed by Barcelona, Polygrafa, 1991.

    Notes: This edition was distributed by Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona in conjunction with the publication of Motherwell by Jack Flam, in Poligrafa's series of monographs on contemporary artists.

    Technique: Etching on beige Arches paper. Limited edition of 50 copies, 10 artist's proofs and 10 out of commerce. Signed and numbered by the artist in the lower right margin in pencil RM (28/50).

    Conservation: Very good condition.

    Measurements: 68 x 77.5 cm.

    Provenance: Joan Prats Gallery, Barcelona Private collection.

    Bibliography: Engberg/Banach, “Robert Motherwell: The Complete Prints 1940-1991 Catalogue Raisonné”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis 2003, nº 517. Page 393.

    Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991) was an American abstract expressionist painter, printmaker, and editor of The Dada Painters and Poets: an Anthology. He was one of the youngest of the New York School, which also included Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko.

    Trained in philosophy, Motherwell then became an artist regarded as among the most articulate spokesmen and the founders of the abstract expressionist painters. He was known for his series of abstract paintings and prints which touched on political, philosophical and literary themes, such as the Elegies to the Spanish Republic.

    Robert Motherwell was born in Aberdeen, Washington on January 24, 1915, the first child of Robert Burns Motherwell II and Margaret Hogan Motherwell. The family later moved to San Francisco, where Motherwell's father served as president of Wells Fargo Bank, but returned to Cohasset Beach, Washington, every summer during his youth. Another Aberdeen native with a home at Cohasset Beach was Lance Wood Hart, painter and art teacher, who became Motherwell's early mentor. Due to the artist's asthmatic condition, Motherwell was reared largely on the Pacific Coast and spent most of his school years in California. There he developed a love for the broad spaces and bright colours that later emerged as essential characteristics of his abstract paintings (ultramarine blue of the sky and yellow ochre of Californian hills). His later concern with themes of mortality can likewise be traced to his frail health as a child.

    Between 1932 and 1937, Motherwell briefly studied painting at California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco and received a BA in philosophy from Stanford University. At Stanford, Motherwell was introduced to modernism through his extensive reading of symbolist and other literature, especially Mallarmé, James Joyce, Edgar Allan Poe, and Octavio Paz. This passion stayed with Motherwell for the rest of his life and became a major theme of his later paintings and drawings.

    At the age of 20, Motherwell took a grand tour of Europe, accompanied by his father and sister. They began in Paris, then traveled to Amalfi, Italy. The next stops were Switzerland, Germany, The Netherlands and London. The group ended their tour in Motherwell, Scotland.

    According to Motherwell, the reason he went to Harvard was that he wanted to be a painter, although his father urged him to pursue a more secure career: "And finally after months of really a cold war he made a very generous agreement with me that if I would get a Ph.D. so that I would be equipped to teach in a college as an economic insurance, he would give me fifty dollars a week for the rest of my life to do whatever I wanted to do on the assumption that with fifty dollars I could not starve but it would be no inducement to last. So with that agreed on Harvard then—it was actually the last year—Harvard still had the best philosophy school in the world. And since I had taken my degree at Stanford in philosophy, and since he didn't care what the Ph.D. was in, I went on to Harvard."

    At Harvard, Motherwell studied under Arthur Oncken Lovejoy and David Wite Prall. He spent a year in Paris to research the writings of Eugène Delacroix, where he met American composer Arthur Berger who advised him to continue his education at Columbia University, under Meyer Schapiro.[6] In 1939, Lance Wood Hart, then a professor of drawing and painting at the University of Oregon, invited Motherwell to join him in Eugene, OR to assist in teaching his classes for a full semester.

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    LAMENT FOR LORCA

    TÍTULO DE MARQUÉS DEL REAL AGRADO A DON DOMINGO DE LIZUNDIA PARA SI, SUS HEREDEROS, Y SUBCESORES.

    ZÉBRE JAUNE ET ZÉBRE NOIR

    POETA EN NUEVA YORK

    Product type
    Print Manuscript Print Book
    Author
    GIAMBONI, Juan CALDER, Alexander FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA - EDUARDO NARANJO
    Year
    1765 1976 1991
    Place
    San Ildefonso, Segovia
    Printing / Plublisher
    Condition
    Perfect condition Good condition Perfect condition
    Binding
    cloth binding Unsewn binding
    Edition
    First edition
    Signed
    Signed by the artist Signed by the author
    Artistic technique
    Etching Painting lithography