El Negro . Original portfolio and text. Lacking most of the lithographs. Signed. First edition.

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Folio. 38 x 38cm. Sheets loose as issued in original cream cloth portfolio. Edition of 51, signed by Motherwell. The following lithographs are present: Dorothy Belknap nos.:268, 269, 270, 271, 272, 291.The title "El Negro" is stamped on the front cover in black. The spine of the book is stamped "'El Negro' Alberti Motherwell/Tyler Graphics Ltd." and includes the publisher's logo. Typeface Bodoni Bold: typography by Antony Drobinski and Roberta Savage, Emsworth Studios, New York; typesetting by Stamford Typesetting Corporation, Stamford Connecticut.PAPER:White TGL handmade bound in natural buckram-covered clamshell boxSIGNATURE:Signed ?Robert Motherwell? in black ink lower left on colophon page.In response to a poem written by Spanish poet and painter Rafael Alberti, Motherwell created a sequence of nineteen lithographs. Motherwell and Kenneth Tyler collaborated from 1981 to 1983 in the design and creation of the artist's book or 'livre de peintre' known as El Negro Motherwell. Motherwell made his images on prepared mylar and acetate sheets using Paintstiks, grease pencils, a alcohol tusche he applied with brushes or a bamboo pen. These images were transferred to aluminum plates and then the lithographs were printed on a flat bed offset press onhandmade paper.

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El Negro . Original portfolio and text. Lacking most of the lithographs. Signed. First edition.

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Bedford Village, NY: Tyler Graphics. 1983

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