Octavio Paz Suite: Mexican Elegy

1988

lithograph and chine appliqué
22 7/8 x 28 in. (58.1 x 71.1 cm)

Paper

Arches paper; Japanese Gampi handmade paper

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 379

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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