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CR 521
Black for Mozart
1991
lithograph and collage
64 x 41 in. (162.6 x 104.1 cm)
Paper
White Tyler Graphics Ltd. (TGL) handmade paper; white Rives BFK paper; Korean Kozo natural fiber handmade paper
Signature
Signed "RM" in pencil lower right
Inscriptions
Numbered in pencil lower right; workshop chop mark lower right; workshop number "RM90-1034" in pencil reverse lower left
Edition
40
Proofs
1 archive proof
16 AP, numbered 1/16-16/16
1 CP
1 CTP
2 PP
1 RTP
3 TP
1 WP
16 AP, numbered 1/16-16/16
1 CP
1 CTP
2 PP
1 RTP
3 TP
1 WP
Publisher
Tyler Graphics, Mount Kisco, New York
Printer
Kevin Falco, assisted by Lee Funderburg and Eric Ting, Tyler Graphics Ltd.
Collaborators
Papermaking by Tom Strianese, assisted by Jed Marshall and Brian Maxwell; image stencils hand-cut by Strianese; prep work for continuous-tone lithography by Kenneth Tyler; aluminum plate preparation, processing, and proofing by Falco and Hutcheson, assisted by Ting; preparation and adhering of collage elements by Falco and Hutcheson
Production Sequence
14 colors (including 3 pulp colors, 1 dye color, and 2 colored papers) printed in 11 steps from 8 aluminum plates: 1. TGL paper hand-colored using green, blue, and red pulps applied to a white pulp base sheet; 2. black – plate (on TGL paper); 3. red – plate (on same paper as step 2); 4. black – plate (on same paper as step 2); 5. gray dye applied to the dampened TGL paper; 6. gray – plate (on Rives BFK paper); 7. light orange – plate (on same paper as step 6); 8. yellow – plate (on same paper as step 6); 9. dark orange – plate (on same paper as step 6); 10. black – plate (on Kozo paper); 11. collage: printed papers from steps 6-10 torn and adhered to printed TGL paper (from steps 2-4)
Concordance
TGL RM94
Comments
Several impressions are stamped with the workshop number "RM88-1034."
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