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Robert Motherwell & Black [SIGNED 1/30]

Terenzio, Stephanie

Storrs, Connecticut: William Benton Museum of Art, 1980. First edition. Softcover. 9/30. Quarto. 156pp. Illustrated stiff white wraps. Double brown front and back endpapers. Frontispiece photograph and double page title. Monogrammed and numbered 9/30 on front flap. Publication on the occasion of the exhibition at the William Benton Museum. Beautifully illustrated with color and b/w reproductions of photographs introducing the art of the American abstract expressionist, printmaker and editor Robert Motherwell,including public events and write-ups, surrounding the exhibition. Motherwell was one of the youngest of the New York School.

"I think of color as a thing, not as an abstraction, I do not draw shapes and then color them blue; I take a piece of blue, a large extension of blue and cut out, so to speak, from the extension of blue as much as I want. Color is a thing for me, and not a symbol for something else, say the sky: though associations are unavoidable." (Motherwell). Photo credits and bibliography at rear. Minor wear of binding though with very light bump at lower foredge corner of front cover. Very good to near fine condition. Item #53638
ISBN: 0918386284

Price: $650.00