Automatism A

1966

lithograph on Rives BFK paper
28 x 21 in. (71.1 x 53.3 cm)

Signature

Signed "Motherwell" in pencil lower right; signed "M" (reversed) in plate lower right

Inscriptions

Numbered in pencil lower right; printer's chop mark lower right

Edition

100

Proofs

AP (unrecorded)
PP (unrecorded)
TP (unrecorded)

Publisher

Hollander Workshop, New York

Printer

Irwin Hollander, Hollander Workshop

Production Sequence

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

Concordance

B 6

Comments

Automatism A and Automatism B inaugurate Motherwell's collaboration with Irwin Hollander (see also cat. no. 20). The technical director of Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles from 1963 to 1964, Hollander opened his own workshop in New York in 1964 in a loft on East Tenth Street.

A slightly smaller edition print of this image measuring 25 1/2 x 21 1/8 in. (64.8 x 53.7 cm) is in the artist's archive.

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