Arches paper; Japanese Masa Dosa handmade paper

Signed “RM” in pencil lower left

Numbered in pencil lower right; inscribed “27” in pencil on reverse by publisher; (c) ink stamp for poetry, lithography and translation on reverse

4 colors (including 1 colored paper) printed in 4 steps from 2 aluminum plates and 1 linoleum block: 1. red – plate (on Masa Dosa paper); 2. black – plate (on same paper as step 1); 3. red – linoleum block (on same paper as step 1); 4. Masa Dosa paper adhered to Arches paper (chine appliqué); text printed in letterpress

B 380

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