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CR 4
Personage
1944
burin engraving (paper type unknown)
13 1/8 x 9 7/8 (33.3 x 25.1 cm)
plate size: 11 5/8 x 7 3/8 in. (27.9 x 17.8 cm)
Signature
Signed "Robert Motherwell" in pencil lower right
Inscriptions
Dated "1944" in pencil lower right; titled "Personage" in pencil lower left; numbered in pencil lower left
Edition
1
Proofs
2
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 1A
Comments
Two impressions of this image, each inscribed "first state," show early stages of the linear and tonal development of the composition. One of these impressions is signed "R. Motherwell" and the second "Robert Motherwell." They are both inscribed "(first state)" in pencil lower left. One of these "first state" impressions was included in Motherwell's 1944 exhibition at Art of This Century in New York.
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