Robert Motherwell: The complete prints 1940-1991: A catalogue raisonné

Minneapolis: Walker Art Center; New York: Hudson Hills, 2003. FIRST EDITION. Numerous black and white photographic illustrations, plus 536 full-color prints. Publisher’s cloth, titles in silver, original photographic illustrated dust jacket; in excellent condition. First edition of this new work covering all of Motherwell’s prints. This catalogue raisonné, with a new text, chronology and bibliography, does contain a concordance referencing prints which were included in his earlier catalogue raisonné. It also contains an essay on Motherwell’s print-making history.

Motherwell (1915-1991), abstract artist and print-maker, was the youngest of the New York school of artists that included Jackson Pollack, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning. His work often touched on political and social events and movements. And unlike his abstract expressionist colleagues, Motherwell became a renowned and celebrated print-maker. His work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions and retrospectives.