A pioneer of his time and a leading scholarly voice among his contemporaries, Robert Motherwell is celebrated globally for his abstract expressionist paintings that grace the walls of galleries and museums. His work Red Sea III is emblematic of his oeuvre, combining the charged energy of his brushwork and dynamic use of color with a minimalist approach to negative space and visual content. The result is a cerebral and impassioned painting that captures the intuitive action of the American artist at work.