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Print227 Iso

Oy/Yo

 1978

Print227 Iso

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)

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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