ROBERT MOTHERWELL "FLAGS" LITHOGRAPH, 1989 portraits bottom left and verso

bottom left and verso

is consistently provocative and occasionally frightening

made up the quartet of American abstract painters that radically defined Modern painting and established New York City as the center of the art world for the second half of the 20th century

Titled and signed

"Swatch #3" is a fascinating balance between spontaneity and structure

ROBERT MOTHERWELL "FLAGS" LITHOGRAPH, 1989 portraits bottom left and versoRobert Motherwell (1915 1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of American abstract painters that radically defined abstraction and established New York City as the center of the art world for the second half of the 20th century. Motherwell, an uncommonly gifted communicator, acted as the unofficial spokesman of the New York School writing, teaching, and lecturing on behalf of the movement, his fellow