Auvergne à la Main Richard de Bas handmade paper; offset-printed Roth Händle cigarette label

Signed "RM" in pencil upper right

Numbered in pencil upper right

53

AP (unrecorded)
1 CP
TP (unrecorded)
hand-colored WP (unrecorded)

Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York

Catherine Mosely, artist’s studio, Greenwich, Connecticut

Cigarette label printed at Harbor Press, New York; collage element hand-torn by Chip Elwell

1 color printed in 2 steps from 1 copper plate: 1. black – plate (on Auvergne à la Main paper); 2. collage: Roth-Händle cigarette label offset printed from a two-color photograph, folded and hand-torn

B 137

The title of this image derives from typography on the collage fragment, which is a cigarette package. The print was resized and torn to just inside the plate mark, eliminating the borders. Trial proof variations show alternative collage elements that were considered and changes in the positioning of the fragment.