Robert Motherwell

Lithograph and relief print in colors, with embossing and collage, 1984, signed in pencil, numbered 55/62 (total edition includes 12 artist's proofs); with Untitled and Naples Yellow Open (W. A. C. 182, 341), two aquatints printed in colors with soft-ground etching and lift-ground etching, 1975-84, each signed in pencil, numbered 14/96 and 10/62 respectively (total edition includes 15 and 10 artist's proofs respectively), published by the artist and Brooke Alexander Inc., New York and Tyler Graphics Ltd., New York, with their blindstamps, on various paper, framed (3 prints)

Water's Edge (W.A.C. 339): With full margins, small strips of discoloration from hinges on the verso showing through recto in two places at upper corners, pale paper discoloration, very pale scattered foxing in the margins, a soft handling crease at lower right edge, rippling in the left margin (occasional printer's creases in the margins at left and at top), otherwise in good condition. Naples Yellow Open (W.A.C. 341) With full margins, in good condition apart from a short diagonal handling crease at upper left corner, occasional surface dirt (?) in the image at right, very pale paper discoloration and occasional fox mark at extreme edges. On the verso, slight surface dirt at lower left edge and centre of sheet and occasional fox mark. Untitled (W.A.C. 182) With full margins, in good condition apart from pale white mottling in the black, pale paper discoloration at extreme edges of sheet. On the verso, backboard staining and occasional pale fox marks.
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