Robert Motherwell
(American, 1915 – 1991)
Untitled (New York Cultural Institutions)
Sheet: 30 x 22 1/2 inches (76.2 x 57.2 cm)
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Lithograph with blind embossing printed in seven colors, a fine, fresh impression of the only known state, the full sheet, printed on Arches Cover paper, to the edges, signed and numbered in pencil by the artist, executed in an edition of 250 (there were also 25 Artist’s Proofs, 35 deluxe Roman Numbered images on Arches Cover and 10 deluxe Roman Numbered Artist’s Proof images), printed by Tyler Graphics, with their chopmark, published by the New York Graphic Society, Greenwich, Connecticut, in very fine condition, unframed.
Literature:
Belknap, Dorothy C. The Prints of Robert Motherwell: A Catalogue Raisonné 1943-1984. New York, American Federation of Arts with Hudson Hills Press, p.252, no.260, illustrated (another example).
Notes:
Belknap (1984) notes the present work as Untitled, however when the print was originally published, the New York Graphic Society gave the work the title, New York Cultural Institutions.
This work was part of the New York, New York portfolio.