Original Black & White Photograph of the Artist at Work Signed by Robert Motherwell to His Friend, Art Critic Arthur A. Cohen
signed
1973
by MOTHERWELL, ROBERT
1973. Original Autograph Note Signed on the verso by Robert Motherwell to to art critic and historian Arthur A. Cohen and his wife: “To Elaine & Arthur Cohen, with love, Robert Motherwell”. With a photo credit stamp of his wife Renate Ponsold-Motherwell below the inscription and “Robert Motherwell, Sept. 1973 (Greenwich)” written in pencil above the inscription. The photo measures 10 1/8” x 8”, with white borders, and shows Motherwell in his studio. Arthur A. Cohen was a close personal friend of Motherwell’s and wrote the foreword to the book, ‘Robert Motherwell. Selected Prints: 1961 - 1974’. Robert Motherwell (1915 - 1991) was an American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker. He originated the term ‘New York School’ and was one of its youngest members, a group which also included Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, and Philip Guston. His is perhaps best known for his long-running series of paintings "Elegies for the Spanish Republic.” He was once married to fellow abstract expressionist artist Helen Frankenthaler and in 1989 he was awarded the National Medal of Arts. (Inventory #: 23187E)