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Lot 336
  • 336

Robert Motherwell

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Robert Motherwell
  • Red Sea II (W. A. C. 242)
  • Etching and aquatint printed in colors
  • plate: 600 by 500 mm 23 5/8 by 19 3/4 in
  • sheet: 870 by 730 mm 34 1/4 by 28 3/4 in
Etching and aquatint printed in colors, 1979, signed in pencil, numbered 10/100, on German etching paper, printed in the artist's Greenwich, Connecticut studio with his chop mark, published by Abrams Original Editions, Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York, framed

Condition

The print is in good condition, with full margins and fresh colors. Two unobtrusive areas of stray ink in the left margin at bottom and in the bottom right corner. A 2 1/2 inch crease in the center of the sheet, inconspicuous from the recto and apparent from the verso. The verso, with four skinned areas from a prior hinging.
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