Signed "RM" in pencil lower right

Numbered in pencil lower right; each sheet is stamped verso: "Copyright (c) 1987 Robert Motherwell"

50

1 archive proof
10 AP, numbered I/X- X/X
1 BAT
5 HC
1 position proof
5 PP, numbered I/V-V/V
5 TP

Bruce Porter, assisted by David Lantow and William Olsen, Trestle Editions Limited, New York

Portfolio design, editing, and production by Benjamin Shiff; printed Japanese papers attached to the base sheets with chine appliqué on intaglio presses by Renaissance Press, Hinsdale, New Hampshire, and Wingate Studios, Hinsdale

B 354 - 380

The catalogue illustrations are sequenced to follow the order of the illustrated book and the portfolio with text, although the physical sequencing of the sheets in the folios is differently arranged. The collage of this format includes catalogue numbers for identification purposes.

See Comments for Three Poems (cat. nos. 387.1-.27).

27 original lithographs on various handmade Japanese papers attached with chine appliqué to Arches paper of various sizes. The cover of the portfolio is embellished with a duplicate of the fifteenth image from the illustrated book format printed on Masa Dosa paper in red and measuring 9 x 11 in. (22.9 x 28 cm). The portfolio has no colophon page. Colophon documentation for this format is contained in the colophon page for the portfolio with text.

A portfolio of 27 loose sheets in a clamshell box covered in natural linen
fabricated by Portfoliobox, Providence, Rhode Island. The box is lined with gray paper. The sheets are arranged within the box according to size in a graduated stock of three components: 13 sheets in the top folder; 11 sheets in the middle folder; and 3 loose sheets. All three components are enclosed in a folio wrapper of Arches paper. The folio is stamped with "Robert Motherwell" in block, "Octavio Paz" in red, and "The Limited Editions Club" in black and measures 31 1/4 x 26 1/4 in. (79.4 x 66.7 cm).

Bauer Bodoni Bold

Arches cover folio wrapper with title text: Robert Motherwell / Octavio Paz Suite / The Limited Editions Club

Top folio: 13 sheets, each 25 3/8 x 21 1/4 in. (64.5 x 54 cm)
1 sheet with lithograph (Blue Gesture, cat. no. 430)
1 sheet with lithograph (Untitled, cat. no. 431)
1 sheet with lithograph (A Throw of the Dice, cat. no. 434)
1 sheet with lithograph (Red Samurai, cat. no. 435)
1 sheet with lithograph (Untitled, cat. no. 439)
1 sheet with lithograph (Nocturne I, cat. no. 415)
1 sheet with lithograph (Nocturne II, cat. no. 416)
1 sheet with lithograph (Nocturne III, cat. no. 417)
1 sheet with lithograph (Nocturne IV, cat. n o . 418)
1 sheet with lithograph (Nocturne V, cat. no. 419)
1 sheet with lithograph (Nocturne VI, cat. no. 420)
1 sheet with lithograph (Nocturne VII, cat. no. 421)
1 sheet with lithograph (Nocturne VIII, cat. no. 422)

Middle folio: 11 sheets of various sizes
1 sheet with lithograph (Je t'aime, cat. no. 436), 27 7/8 x 19 1/2 in. (70.8 x 49.5 cm)
1 sheet with lithograph (Return, cat. no. 424), 28 1/4 x 19 3/8 in. (71.8 x 49.2 cm)
1 sheet with lithograph (Untitled, cat. no. 423), 28 1/4 x 19 3/8 in. (71.8 x 49.2 cm)
1 sheet with lithograph (Burnt Water, cat. no. 427), 28 1/4 x 22 1/2 in. (71.8 x 57.2 cm)
1 sheet with lithograph (Wind, cat. no. 429), 22 7/8 x 28 in. (58.1 x 71.1 cm)
1 sheet with lithograph (Red Wind, cat. no. 441), 22 7/8 x 28 in. (58.1 x 71 .1 cm)
1 sheet with lithograph (Untitled, cat. no. 432), 22 7/8 x 28 in. (58.1 x 71.1 cm)
1 sheet with lithograph (Spanish Elegy, cat. no. 433), 22 7/8 x 28 in. (58.1 x 71.1 cm)
1 sheet with lithograph (Untitled, cat. no. 437), 22 7/8 x 28 in. (58.1 x 71.1 cm)
1 sheet with lithograph (Black Sun, cat. no. 438), 22 7/8 x 28 in. (58.1 x 71.1 cm)
1 sheet with lithograph (Mexican Elegy, cat. no. 440), 22 7/8 x 28 in. (58.1 x 71.1 cm)

Loose sheets: 3 sheets, each 26 1/4 x 31 3/4 in. (66.7 x 80.7 cm)
1 sheet with lithograph (Mexico City Personages I, cat. no. 425)
1 sheet with lithograph (Mexico City Personages II, cat. no. 426)
1 sheet with lithograph (Mexico City Personages III, cat. no. 428)