Signed "R. Motherwell" in pencil lower right

Numbered in pencil lower right; workshop chop mark lower right; workshop number "RM89-961" in pencil reverse lower left

50

1 archive proof
20 AP, numbered 1/20-20/20
2 PP
1 RTP

Tyler Graphics Ltd., Mount Kisco, New York

John Hutcheson and Jim Lefkowitz, Tyler Graphics Ltd.,

Papermaking by Paul Imboden and Tom Strianese; prep work for continuous-tone lithography by Kenneth Tyler; plate preparation and processing by Lee Funderburg; proofing by Funderburg, Hutcheson, and Tyler

4 colors printed in 4 runs from 7 aluminum plates: 1. black – plate; 2. white – two plates; 3. white – two plates; 4. white – two plates (white was printed using two aluminum plates for each printing: one plate for the left side, and one plate for the right side of the print)

B 425; TGL RM91

In 1975 Motherwell hand-painted an impression of Spanish Elegy I (cat. no. 174) with black and white acrylic, revising the overall shapes of the Elegy forms, adding a pronounced black border and white brush strokes inside the field. He used this impression as the maquette for Elegy Study I and increased the size.