Robert MOTHERWELL
United States of America 1915 – 1991
Blue elegy
1987 Print, relief, planographic
Technique: colour relief, lithograph printed from one etched magnesium plate and three aluminium plates; hand dyed paper
Impression: artist's proof VIII/12
Edition: edition of 30: plus 12AP; 2TP; CTP; RTP; PPI; PPII; A
Publisher: Tyler Graphics Ltd, Mount Kisco, New York
Primary Insc: signed lower right, pencil "R. Motherwell". not dated
comp and sheet 105.4 h x 146.7 w cm
Cat Raisonné: Terenzio (1991), 347; TGL print documentation, 1987.
Purchased with the assistance of the Orde Poynton Fund 2002
Accession No: NGA 2002.1.99.1
© Robert Motherwell/VAGA. Licensed by Viscopy
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Robert MOTHERWELL
United States of America 1915 – 1991
Blue elegy
1987 Title Notes: 012-000
Print, relief, planographic
Technique: colour relief, lithograph printed from one etched magnesium plate and three aluminium plates; hand dyed paper
Support: white, wove, handmade, hand-coloured, TGL paper
Manufacturer's Mark: no manufacturer's mark
Impression: artist's proof VIII/12
Edition: edition of 30: plus 12AP; 2TP; CTP; RTP; PPI; PPII; A
Publisher: Tyler Graphics Ltd, Mount Kisco, New York
Place Published: New York
Date Published: 1987
Edition Notes: A 12 colour, pressed paper pulp, relief, lithograph printed from one magnesium plate and three aluminium plates with one paper pressing. Six dye colours were used to colour newly made white pulp base sheet: yellow-ochre, light turquoise blue, dark turquoise blue, light blue-grey, dark blue-grey and white. After coloured paper was pressed and dried, blue (relief, magnesium plate), transparent magenta and transparent blue (lithograph, aluminium plate) magenta and blue (lithograph, aluminium plate) and transparent violet (lithograph, aluminium plate) were printed.Papermaking by Steve Reeves and Tom Strianese. Proofing and edition printing of magnesium plate by Reeves and Strianese.
Proofing and edition printing of aluminium plates by Roger Campbell and Lee Funderburg.
Primary Insc: signed lower right, pencil "R. Motherwell". not dated
Secondary Insc: inscribed lower right, pencil "ap VIII"
Tertiary Insc: embossed lower right corner, TGL chop [hexagon]
verso: inscribed lower left corner, pencil "RM83-687"
comp and sheet 105.4 h x 146.7 w cm
Cat Raisonné: Terenzio (1991), 347; TGL print documentation, 1987.
Purchased with the assistance of the Orde Poynton Fund 2002
Accession No: NGA 2002.1.99.1
© Robert Motherwell/VAGA. Licensed by Viscopy
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