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MOTHERWELL, ROBERT; and ALBERTI, RAFAEL. El Negro. Poem by Alberti. 19 lithographs by Motherwell printed from images drawn onto mylar sheets with paintsticks, grease pencils, and tusche, then transferred to aluminum plates for printing; letterpress text. 4to, prints and text leaves bound into printed wrappers with screw-bound portfolio case, some discoloration to interior and exterior of box; contents clean. Overall size 435 by 422mm; 17 1/4x16 3/4 inches. Bedford: Tyler Graphics, 1983
marked pp1 (one of only 2 printers' proofs) from a total edition of 71. one of the outstanding livres d'artiste published by tyler graphics. "A natural successor to Motherwell's other great book with Alberti (A la pintura, 1972), the present sequence of prints illustrates a poem written by Alberti as an homage to Motherwell during the painter's 1980 Barcelona retrospective"--Phillips/Zwicker, Grolier/American Livre de Peintre 35. Motherwell's interest in Spain and Latin America can be traced back to the 1930s. The murder of Federico Garcia Lorca by Fascists in Granada in 1936 greatly influenced his Spanish Elegies series. In the 1940s he spent time with Matta in Mexico. "El Negro was the most ambitious project undertaken by Tyler and Motherwell, incorporating nineteen original lithographs" -- Johnson/Stern The Logan Collection 170; Manet to Hockney 164; Enberg & Banach 308.1-.21; Belknap 268-291; Tyler 415-440.
