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Signs on Copper

Robert Motherwell

Christopher-Clark Fine Art United States

Artwork details

Artist

Robert Motherwell

Title

Signs on Copper

Description

Original aquatint, lift-ground etching and aquatint printed in colors on German Etching paper.

Hand-signed with the artist’s monogram in pencil in the margin lower right RM.

A superb printer’s proof impression of the only state, annotated by hand in pencil also in the margin lower right (there were 53 impressions in the numbered edition, plus 10 artist’s proofs). Published by the artist, released by Petersburg Press, London and New York; printed by Catherine Mosley at the artist’s studio Greenwich, Connecticut.

Catalog: Engberg/Banach 286; Belknap 252.

17 3/4 x 23 1/2 inches

Sheet Size: 26 3/4 x 31 3/4 inches

In excellent condition, with strong, fresh colors, printed on a full sheet.

Date

1981

Medium

Etching and Aquatint

Edition

Signature

Signed

Image

17 3/4 x 23 1/2 inches

Sheet

26 3/4 x 31 3/4 inches

Status

Sold

The Artist

Robert Motherwell

Robert Motherwell: Painter, Writer and Prolific Printmaker

Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), born in Aberdeen, Washington, was the youngest of the original Abstract Expressionists and its most intellectual voice. He studied philosophy and aesthetics before turning to painting, and he edited The Dada Painters and Poets (1951), a landmark anthology. His work draws on Surrealist automatism, French poetry and a deep feeling for the politics and tragedy of the 20th century. Robert Motherwell prints carry that mix of gesture, restraint and emotion into some of the most important American editions of the postwar period.