Lot 284
  • 284

Robert Motherwell

Estimate
12,000 - 18,000 USD
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Description

  • Robert Motherwell
  • Mexican Night II (Walker Art Center 348)
  • Signed and inscribed Motherwell 63/70 in pencil below the plate mark lower right
  • Etching and aquatint printed in red and black on J. Whatman paper
  • plate: 454 by 450 mm 17 7/8 by 17 3/4 in
  • sheet: 634 by 612 mm 25 by 24 1/8 in
Aquatint and etching printed in colors, 1984, signed in pencil, numbered 63/70 (total edition includes ten artist's proofs), on Whatman paper, with the blindstamp of the printer, Robert Motherwell, Greenwich, co-published by the artist and Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford Village, New York, framed

Provenance

Acquired Christie's New York, Prints, May 11, 1993, lot 510.

Literature

Siri Engberg and Joan Banach, Robert Motherwell:  The Complete Prints Catalogue Raisonné, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2003, no. 348, p. 286
Dorothy C. Belknap and Stephanie Terenzio, The Prints of Robert Motherwell, Hudson Hills Press, 1991, no. 318, illus. p. 274

Condition

The print is in good condition, the full sheet. Very pale mat-stain and a small area of uneven discoloration in the bottom margin. Two hinge remnants, verso. (A few of inconspicuous, tiny fox marks.)
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