Signed "Motherwell" in pencil lower left

Numbered in pencil lower left; workshop chop mark lower left; artist's chop mark lower left; workshop number "RM75-139" reverse lower right

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1 archive proof
12 AP, numbered I-XII
1 CP
6 CTP, numbered I-VI
1 PP
1 RTP
3 TP
1 WP

Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford Village, New York

Kenneth Tyler, assisted by Don Carli, Tyler Graphics Ltd.

Plate preparation, processing, and proofing by Tyler

6 colors printed in 6 runs from 6 aluminum plates: 1. red-blue – plate; 2. green-blue – plate; 3. yellow-ochre – plate; 4. black – plate; 5. dark brown – plate; 6. black – plate

B 138; TGL 383 RM2

Based on a 1975 collage with the same title, Bastos was an elaborately staged project that introduced Motherwell to working on prints in a dramatically larger size, comparable to that of his collage works of the mid-1970s. At the time it was made, it represented the largest sheet size that could be accommodated on a hand press.