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ROBERT MOTHERWELL Seaside Studio.
Color aquatint and etching on Whatman paper, 1990. 610x515 mm; 24x20 1/8 inches, full margins. Initialed and numbered 4/32 in pencil, lower right. Printed by Catherine Mosley in the artist's studio, Greenwich. Published by Waddington Graphics, Ltd., London. A superb impression with vibrant colors.
The artist's last print. Motherwell first visited Provincetown, Massachusetts, in the 1940s, with the émigré Surrealist Max Ernst, art collector Peggy Guggenheim (Ernst's wife at the time), and Motherwell's own first wife, actress Emilia Ferreira y Moyers. He kept a studio in Provincetown for decades, visiting frequently during summers to paint ansd sketch, and died of a heart attack while in Cape Cod in 1991 for an exhibition of his work. Belknap 431.
