For Meyer Schapiro: Tallith for Meyer Schapiro

1974

lift-ground etching and aquatint on Arches Cover paper
41 1/2 x 29 1/2 in. (105.4 x 74.9 cm)
plate size: 35 3/4 x 23 3/4 in. (90.8 x 60.3 cm)

Signature

Signed "Motherwell" in pencil lower right; signed "R. Motherwell" (reversed) in plate lower left

Inscriptions

Numbered in pencil lower right; dated "73" (reversed) in plate lower left; inscribed "For Meyer Schapiro" (reversed) in plate lower left; artist's chop mark lower right

Edition

100

Proofs

13 AP, numbered I-XIII
1 CP
11 HC, numbered A-K

Publisher

The Committee to Endow a Chair in Honor of Meyer Schapiro at Columbia University, New York

Printer

Catherine Mosley, artist’s studio, Greenwich, Connecticut

Production Sequence

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

Concordance

B 111

Comments

This etching was produced for inclusion in a portfolio of twelve prints honoring the art historian Meyer Schapiro. The other artists included in the portfolio were Stanley William Hayter, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Alexander Liberman, Roy Lichtenstein, André Masson, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, Saul Steinberg, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol.

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