Andrea Rosen Gallery presents an intimate exhibition of significant collage works by Robert Motherwell spanning the most prolific period of the artist’s collage practice from the late 1950s to the late 1970s. It is a particularly apt time to examine this body of work as there has been increased in depth attention on the artist with the concurrent Elegy exhibition at Dominique Levy Gallery, and earlier this year the Lyric Suite drawing exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Opens painting exhibition at Andrea Rosen Gallery. The practice of collage was one that Motherwell visited often throughout his career, and is reflective of the evolution of Motherwell’s oeuvre, from the emotionally charged expressionistic collages of the 1940s to the serene and minimal
