Artist:  ROBERT MOTHERWELL (American, 1915 - 1991)

Title:   Three Poems / Octavio Paz Suite: Mexico City Personages I  - 1988 

Medium:  Original Lithograph on Japanese Gampi paper with Chine Appliqué on Arches paper with letterpress

Paper:  Arches paper; Japanese Gampi handmade paper to Cartiere Enrico Magnani paper

Printer:  Printed by Bruce Porter, assisted by David Lantow and William Olsen, Trestle Editions Limited, NY;  Image transferred from Mylar to aluminum plate by Maurice Sanchez, Derriere l'Etoile Studios, New York

Publisher:  The Limited Editions Club, New York.

Notes:  Other Collaborators - dry mounting of the printed Japanese papers to the base sheets by Jo Watanabe Studios, Brooklyn, NY and Horton  Tank Graphics, Hadley, Massachusettes

Provenance:  Hatay Stratton Fine Art

About the Artist:   Robert Motherwell (January 24, 1915 – July 16, 1991) was an important American painter and printmaker. He was one of the youngest of the New York School, which also included Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko.  Like many of his colleagues of the Abstract Expressionist generation, Motherwell remained devoted to recognizable imagery, to the expressive potential of calligraphic marks and to subject matter of a literary and political nature. Motherwell earned his bachelors from Stanford and a PhD from Harvard. He was previously married to fellow artist Helen Frankenthaler until 1971.