Arches Cover mould-made paper

Signed "Motherwell" in pencil lower right

Numbered in pencil lower right; workshop chop mark lower right; artist's chop mark lower right; workshop number "RM73-525" in pencil reverse lower left

90

30 AP
1 CP
15 épreuves d’artiste (”EA”) impressions
2 PP
1 RTP
30 TP

Propyläen Verlag, Berlin, and Pantheon Press, Rome

Serge Lozingot, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles

1 color printed in 1 run from 1 aluminum plate: black – plate

B 112; GGEL 565; NGA 34.2

To commemorate the death of Pablo Picasso in 1973, Wieland Schmied organized a series of five albums comprising a set containing lithographs, silkscreens, etchings, and aquatints on paper by American and European artists. Each artist's contribution had to be thematically related to Picasso. Each album includes a title page, a list of plates, and a justification page and is contained in a red linen-covered folder.

The albums are composed as follows.

Volume I: Pol Bury, Jorge Castillo, Corneille, Jacques Lipchitz, Giacomo Manzu, Roberto Matta, Joan Miró, Eduardo Paolozzi, Robert Rauschenberg, Fritz Wotruba

Volume II: Schusaku Arakawa, Enrico Baj, Hans Bellmer, Richard Hamilton, David Hockney, R. B. Kitaj, Nicholas Krushenick, Heinz Mack, Niki de Saint Phalle, Jean Tinguely, Cy Twombly, Jan Voss

Volume III: Pierre Alechinsky, Joseph Beuys, Lynn Chadwick, Eduardo Chillida, Christo, Alan Davie, Hap Grieshaber, Jiri Kolar, André Masson, Frank Stella, Stefan Wiewerka

Volume IV: Max Bill, Jim Dine, Allen Jones, Roy Lichtenstein, Henry Moore, Robert Motherwell, Edouard Pignon, Emil Schumacher, Herve Télémaque, Joe Tilson, Walasse Ting

Volume V: Gerhard Altenbourg, Arman, Oyvind Fahlström, Renato Guttoso, Hans Hartung, Alfred Hrdlicka, Donald Judd, Wifredo Lam, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Bernard Schultze, Kumi Sugai, Antoni Tápies, Gunther Uecker, Victor Vasarely