ROBERT MOTHERWELL "ULYSSES: THE HOSPITAL" ETCHING 1988Robert 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. While Motherwell's contribution to the art historical canon as a painter is undisputed, his role as a printmaker is arguably just as important. From the early 1960s until his

whether it was celebrating high-culture or low-life revellers

A cyan-blue morning glory is planted at the margin

"(Horizon) Oro Barn"

It is quite rare to find an image from the period in this more intimate size

Tate Modern (London)

"The beginning of the war will be secret"

(Mexico City

Olitski's spray technique was an evolution or abandonment of this approach

Here Duchamp's blue and red palette is replaced with a surprising deviation from General Idea's signature palette of red

"Quartel General do Exercito

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and flat colors