Black with No Way Out

1983

15 x 37 3/4 in. (38.1 x 95.9 cm)

Signature

Signed "Motherwell" in pencil lower right

Inscriptions

Numbered in pencil lower right; workshop chop mark lower right; workshop number "RM81-640" in pencil reverse lower left

Edition

Proofs

1 archive proof
14 AP, numbered I/XIV-XIV/XIV
1 CP
2 PP
1 RTP
other proofs (unrecorded)

Publisher

Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford Village, New York

Printer

Roger Campbell and Lee Funderburg, Tyler Graphics Ltd.

Collaborators

Papermaking by Steve Reeves and Tom Strianese; prep work for continuous-tone lithography by Kenneth Tyler; plate preparation and processing by Funderburg

Production Sequence

3 colors printed in 3 runs from 3 aluminum plates: 1. black – plate; 2. red – plate; 3. dark red – plate

Concordance

B 285; TGL 434 RM53

Comments

During the production of El Negro, seven images were selected by Motherwell to be printed on separate editions. This is the sixteenth image in the book.

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