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  |  | MOTHERWELL Robert (1915-1991) "Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it" 
    
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    |  |  | Robert MOTHERWELL, a few dates |  |  
 
	
    | 1915 | born in Aberdeen (US) |  
    | 1939 | first personal exhibition at the Raymon Duncan gallery in Paris |  
    | 1941 | travels with Roberto Matta in Mexico for six months |  
    | 1942 | frequents the group of artists from the New York school: William Baziotes, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Hans Hofmann participates to the "First papers of Surrealism" exhibition, organized by Marcel Duchamp and André Breton
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    | 1943 | works on his first collage |  
    | 1948 | founds the "Subjects of the Artists" with Rothko, Hare, Newman and Baziotes paints his first "Elegy"
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    | 1950 | represents the United States at the Venice Biennial and at the Sao Paulo Biennial in 1951 |  
    | 1991 | died in Provincetown |  |