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CR 227
Oy/Yo
1978
aquatint, soft-ground etching, and collage
26 3/4 x 22 in. (68 x 55.9 cm)
plate size: 19 3/4 x 15 3/4 in. (50.2 x 40 cm)
Paper
Buff Rives BFK paper; black Ingres paper
Signature
Signed "Motherwell" in pencil lower right
Inscriptions
Numbered in pencil lower right; artist's chop mark lower right
Edition
78
Proofs
10 AP, numbered I/X-X/X
TP (unrecorded)
TP (unrecorded)
Publisher
Artist, released by Brooke Alexander, Inc., New York
Printer
Catherine Mosley, artist’s studio, Greenwich, Connecticut
Production Sequence
3 colors printed in 3 steps from 2 copper plates: 1. ochre – plate (aquatint, on Rives BFK paper); 2. red and black – plate (soft-ground etching, on same paper as step 1); 3. collage: hand-torn Ingres paper adhered to Rives BFK paper
Concordance
B 196
Comments
The plate used in A la pintura: White 3-6 (cat. no. 126) was used again in this print as an inscription on the collage fragment.
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