Octavio Paz Suite: Nocturne VIII

1988

lithograph and chine appliqué
25 3/8 x 21 1/4 in. (64.5 x 54 cm)

Paper

Arches paper; Japanese Gampi handmade paper

Collaborators

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

Production Sequence

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)

Concordance

B 361

Comments

Motherwell executed the drawing for this print in 1967. See also general entry for Octavio Paz Suite (cat. nos. 415-444) and Three Poems (cat. nos. 387.1-.27).

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