Robert Motherwell “A Centenary Survey of Major Works”
Bernard Jacobson Gallery
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To mark the centenary of Robert Motherwell’s birth on 24th January 1915, the Bernard Jacobson Gallery will inaugurate its new space in Duke Street St James’s, London, with an exhibition that will survey the major series of the artist’s work. This will be the first time since the Royal Academy exhibition of 1978 that such a survey has been seen in the UK.
Robert Motherwell, born 24th January 1915, is one of the major figures in that group of artists who made the first truly internationally significant American art - the Abstract Expressionists. But Robert Motherwell is much more than an Abstract Expressionist. In the ‘60s after the initial burst of the movement in the 1940s and ‘50s, many of Motherwell’s colleagues were either dead or were making art in the same vein as that by which they had already defined themselves. Motherwell, however, had always been a tireless innovator, so while the series Elegy to the Spanish Republic which he worked on from 1947 up until his death in 1991, is his most famous, Motherwell was, all the time, making collages as well as whole small groups and even large on-going series of paintings that were totally divergent from the Elegy series. Alongside this ferocious activity Motherwell was a prolific printmaker and producer of hundreds of works on paper. It is partly the variety of his work that makes Motherwell such an important and influential artist today.
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from January 24, 2015 to March 28, 2015