ROBERT MOTHERWELL “GRAY OPEN WITH WHITE PAINT” ETCHING, 1981 Mickalene Thomas print to a lesser degree

to a lesser degree

Annotated “Children” and “426” in pencil verso

Framed with museum glass

celebrity-obsessed

smoking and posing

ROBERT MOTHERWELL “GRAY OPEN WITH WHITE PAINT” ETCHING, 1981 Mickalene Thomas print to a lesser degreeRobert Motherwell (1915 1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of American artists that radically defined abstraction and established New York City as the center of the post war art world. Motherwell was also the unofficial spokesman of the New York School, writing, teaching, and lecturing extensively on behalf of abstract expressionism, his fellow artists, and the merits of abstraction. In addition