bookmaker and competitive cyclist
Motherwell's signature ink-black gestural forms
and the Museum Ludwig (Cologne)
The source pattern is an anonymous textile
handmade paper and fabric)
ROBERT MOTHERWELL "CARPETA," LITHOGRAPH & COLLAGE, 1986 art investment bookmaker and competitive cyclistRobert Motherwell (1915 1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of abstract painters that radically defined Modern painting in America and established New York City as the new center of the art world. Motherwell was the unofficial spokesman of the New York School, writing and editing a journal, and lecturing on behalf of the movement, his fellow artists, and the merits of abstraction. Motherwell's