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CR 497
May Linen Suite #1
1990
etching on Twinrocker May Linen paper
20 x 21 1/2 in. (50.8 x 54.6 cm)
plate size: 11 x 14 3/4 in. (27.9 x 37.5 cm)
Signature
Signed "RM" in pencil lower right
Inscriptions
Numbered in pencil lower right; artist's chop mark lower right
Edition
15
Proofs
1 archive proof
7 AP, numbered 1/7-7/7
1 BAT
1 CP
1 presentation proof
2 PP
other proofs (unrecorded)
7 AP, numbered 1/7-7/7
1 BAT
1 CP
1 presentation proof
2 PP
other proofs (unrecorded)
Publisher
Artist; released by Waddington Graphics Ltd., London
Printer
Catherine Mosley, assisted by Janis Stemmermann, artist’s studio, Greenwich, Connecticut
Production Sequence
1 color printed in 1 run from 1 copper plate: burnt sienna – plate
Concordance
First cataloguing
Comments
The May Linen Suite continues to explore variations on the linear compositions Motherwell used in the Ulysses etchings. The title of this sequence of eight etchings comes from the name of the paper used in printing, which has a pink tone.
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