Personage

1944

burin engraving (paper type unknown)
8 1/2 x 9 in. (21.6 x 229 cm)
plate size: unknown

Signature

Signed "Robert Motherwell" in pencil lower right

Inscriptions

Dated "1944" in pencil lower right; inscribed "(Proof)" in pencil lower left

Edition

Uneditioned

Proofs

1 (see comments)

Publisher

Artist

Printer

Possibly printed by the artist, under the direction of Stanley William Hayter, Atelier 17, New York

Production Sequence

1 color printed in 1 run from 1 plate (presumably copper): black – plate

Concordance

B 1

Comments

One impression of Personage was given to French architect Pierre Chareau and his wife, Dollie, in 1944 with the inscription "Merry Xmas to Dollie + Pierre Chareau - Bob + Maria." During 1945 and 1946, Chareau designed and built Motherwell's studio house in East Hampton.

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