Lot 53
  • 53

Robert Motherwell

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • Robert Motherwell
  • Game of Chance (Engberg & Banach 377)
  • aquatint and lithograph
  • image: 22 3/4 by 16 1/2 in. (57.8 by 41.9 cm.)
  • sheet: 34 3/4 by 27 1/2 in. (88.3 by 69.9 cm.)
aquatint, lithograph and collage, signed in pencil, numbered 77/100 (total edition includes 18 artist's proofs), on HMP handmade paper, with the blindstamp of the printer and published, Tyler Graphics Ltd., Mount Kisco, framed, 1987

Condition

The print is in good condition, the full sheet. A few extremely faint fox marks visible in the margins of the sheet, one in the signature. One miniscule stray mark in the lower center margin. The verso in good condition with traces of stray ink and the workshop number 'RM86-846' inscribed in pencil in the lower left corner.
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