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The catalogue studies the dialogue between Motherwell’s art and the nineteenth-century French painting tradition, investigates his relationship to Spanish techniques and processes, with an emphasis on their underlying political significance, and delves into Motherwell’s use of ochre pigment, with its evocation of both deep geological time and avant-garde practices.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robert Motherwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56084780908923,"sku":null,"price":44.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0806\/0580\/6877\/files\/Screenshot2026-02-14at11.21.43.png?v=1771064512"},{"product_id":"robert-motherwell-the-art-of-collage","title":"Robert Motherwell: The Art of Collage","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePrepared in consultation with the Dedalus Foundation, and with texts by Mary Ann Caws, Jack Flam, Marcelin Pleynet, Katy Rogers, Diana Donaldson, and Catherine Moseley, this publication documents the gallery’s 2016 exhibition of Motherwell’s collages from four decades, and presents a wide-ranging historical overview of the artist’s lifelong collage-making practice. 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Presenting works spanning from The Mexican Sketchbook of the early 1940s to the Joyce Sketchbook of the 1980s, this overview of Motherwell’s work on paper highlights the way the artist embraced the suggestive potential of his materials—blending the accidental and the intentional in the creative gesture. Large-scale reproductions encourage close looking and immerse the reader in details such as a stroke of the brush or a tear of paper, while an essay by Edouard Kopp examines how the artist’s practice of “automatic drawing” dovetailed with his love of paper and ink in the creation of these unique and compelling works. 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The first volume explores the significance of drawing throughout Motherwell’s career and illuminates how his drawings both inform and are distinct from his work in other media; it also includes a detailed bibliography and exhibition history of his drawings. The second volume illustrates and includes comprehensive entries for each of the drawings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe drawings of Robert Motherwell are critical to understanding his career as a whole, but they have been underexplored in scholarship. Motherwell’s drawings in graphic mediums such as pencil, charcoal, and crayon, or non-paint liquid mediums such as ink and watercolor, represent a subset of his artistic practice distinct from his works in paint on paper (which were included in the 2012 catalogue raisonné of his paintings and collages).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis catalogue raisonné provides the opportunity to explore and understand the crucial role drawing played in his process of inventing, refining, and reinventing his signature motifs. 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