Signed "Motherwell" in pencil lower right

Numbered in pencil lower right; workshop chop mark lower right; artist's chop mark lower right; workshop number "RM75-145" in pencil reverse lower left

45

1 archive proof
7 AP, numbered I-VII
1 BAT
1 CP
2 CTP
1 PP
5 TP, numbered I-V
hand-colored WP (unrecorded)

Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford Village, New York

Robert Bigelow and Kenneth Tyler, Tyler Graphics Ltd.

Stone preparation, processing, and proofing by Tyler; screen preparation, processing, and proofing by Kim Halliday

4 colors printed in 4 runs from 2 stones and 2 screens: 1. black – stone; 2. brown – stone; 3. transparent brown – screen; 4. black – screen

B 140; TGL 385 RM4

This lithograph was pressed between linen canvases while wet to add texture to the surface. Trial proofs were printed on various papers as follows: TP I on mustard HMP rag handmade; TP II on mauve HMP rag handmade; TPs III and IV on tan HMP rag handmade; and TP V on white Twinrocker rag handmade.

The plate used for the Roth Händle motif was used again by the artist and Catherine Mosley for cat. nos. 184-191.