Available at Galerie d'Orsay
1981
Edition Size: 53
Image Size: 17 3/4 x 23 1/2 inches
Sheet Size: 26 3/4 x 31 3/4 inches
Reference: Engberg/Banach 286; Belknap 252.
Signed
Condition: Pristine
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Original aquatint, lift-ground etching and aquatint printed in colors on German Etching paper.
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.
Robert Motherwell was an American Abstract Expressionist painter, a printmaker, and editor. Most famous for his Elegy to the Spanish Republic (a series to many people’s surprise), Motherwell’s work often contains bold background colours with thick asymmetrical paint strokes (often in black), such as Red Queen, Homage á Picasso, and of course as mentioned before, Elegy to the Spanish Republic.
