Octavio Paz Suite: Je t’aime

1988

lithograph and chine appliqué
27 7/8 x 19 1/2 in. (70.8 x 49.5 cm)

Paper

Arches paper; Japanese Gampi handmade paper

Production Sequence

4 colors (including 1 colored paper) printed in 4 steps from 3 aluminum plates: 1. black – plate (on Gampi paper); 2. red – plate (on same paper as step 1); 3. red – plate (on same paper as step 1); 4. Gampi paper adhered to Arches paper (chine appliqué, with Japanese Kitakata handmade paper added between the appliqué sheet and the Arches paper)

Concordance

B 375

Comments

Motherwell began working on this image in 1986. See general entries for Octavio Paz Suite (cat. nos. 415-441) and Three Poems (cat. nos. 387.1-.27)

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