he returned repeatedly to the commedia dell’arte figures of his earlier decades
handmade paper and fabric)
Motherwell's signature ink-black gestural forms
The source pattern is an anonymous textile
The subject dozes in a banquet with his hat tipped down
ROBERT MOTHERWELL "CARPETA," LITHOGRAPH & COLLAGE, 1986 art investment he returned repeatedly to theRobert 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