Whatman paper; German Etching paper

Signed "RM" in pencil lower left

Numbered in pencil lower left; artist's chop mark lower right

40

1 archive proof
10 AP, numbered I/X-X/X
1 CP
HC (unrecorded)
2 PP

Artist; released by Waddington Graphics Ltd., London

Catherine Mosley, assisted by Janis Stemmermann, artist’s studio, Greenwich, Connecticut

3 colors printed in 5 steps from 4 copper plates: 1. red – plate (aquatint, on Whatman paper); 2. black – plate (lift-ground etching and aquatint, on same paper as step 1); 3. black – plate (aquatint and lift-ground etching, on German Etching paper); 4. dark red – plate (aquatint and lift-ground etching, on same paper as step 3); 5. collage: printed German Etching paper (from steps 3 and 4) adhered to printed Whatman paper (from steps 1-2)

B 414

Motherwell composed this image using a fragment from his etching Three Forms (cat. no. 469) as a collage element. The title is a reference to the Red Queen, with her cardlike torso and a brandished scepter, in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Motherwell often referred to printmaking as an Alice-in-Wonderland phenomenology.