Robert Motherwell, Untitled (Catalogue Raisonne: Engberg/Banach 211), 1977

Rare early 1970s lithograph, based on the artist's earlier automatic ink drawings, was published by Robert Motherwell himself, and printed by master printer Robert Bigelew in the artist's studio in Greenwich, Connecticut, bearing the artist's distinctive chop mark, lower right. It's one color printed in one run from 1 aluminum plate - black. According to the catalogue raisonne, "This print was included in the limited edition of Dadi Bianchi: Robert Motherwell, published in 1977 by De Luca, Editore, Rome, which addresses Robert Motherwell's Lyric Suite, a large group of automatic ink drawings made in 1965."

An extremely rare work, as it was distributed in Europe, so very uncommon stateside.

Signature: Signed "Motherwell" in pencil lower right and numbered in pencil 89 from the edition of 100; signed "RM" (reversed in plate), upper left. Additionally, the work bears the artist's distinctive chop mark lower right.

Publisher: Artist (Publisher), Robert Bigelow, Artist's Studio, Greenwich Connecticut

Literature: Catalogue Raisonne: Engberg/Banach 211, Concordance: B, 184