ROBERT MOTHERWELL "SUMMERTIME IN ITALY BLUE" 1966 Winter photography a slithering snake

a slithering snake

from the last chapter of the artist's career

Howard Hodgkin: Venetian Views 1995

What once was a heroic lion rising up from crashing waves has been replaced with a curious poodle/mermaid hybrid

ROBERT MOTHERWELL "SUMMERTIME IN ITALY BLUE" 1966 Winter photography a slithering snakeRobert Motherwell (1915 1991), alongside Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning, made up the quartet of American abstract painters that radically defined abstraction and established New York City as the center of the post war art world. Motherwell was also the unofficial spokesman of the New York School, writing, teaching, and lecturing on behalf of the movement, his fellow artists, and the merits of abstraction. In the 1960s, Motherwell