Arches paper; Japanese Gampi handmade paper

Signed “RM” in pencil lower right

Numbered in pencil lower right; inscribed “5” in pencil on reverse by publisher; (c) ink stamp for poetry, lithography and translation on reverse

Image transferred from Mylar to aluminum plate by Maurice Sanchez, Derriere l’Etoile Studios, New York

2 colors (including 1 colored paper) printed in 2 steps from 1 aluminum plate: 1. black – plate (on Gampi paper); 2. Gampi paper adhered to Arches paper (chine appliqué, with Japanese Kitakata handmade paper added between the appliqué sheet and the Arches paper); text printed in letterpress

B 358

Motherwell executed the drawing for this print in 1967. See also general entry for Three Poems (cat. nos. 387.1-.27)