Octavio Paz Suite: Blue Gesture

1988

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

Paper

Arches paper; Japanese Masa Dosa handmade paper

Production Sequence

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

Concordance

B 369

Comments

Motherwell began working on this image in 1987. See general entries for Octavio Paz Suite (cat. nos. 415-441) and Three Poems (cat. nos. 387.1-.27)

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