NEGRO.|EL

square folio. prints and text leaves bound into printed wrappers with screw-bound cloth-covered boards portfolio case. unpaginated. Lithographs by Robert Motherwell. Privately printed in an edition of 72 copies, of which this is one of 51 numbered copies signed by Robert Motherwell on the colophon available for sale (Belknap 268-291; Engberg & Banach 308; Tyler 415-440). Some discoloration / spotting to the clamshell box and inside near the hinges, else a fine copy of this very scarce publication. A book of nineteen original lithographs (14 in colors and 3 with chine colle) by Robert Motherwell illuminating the poem El Negro Motherwell by Rafael Alberti. The preface was written by Jack Flam and the English translation of the Spanish poem by Vincente Lleó Cañal. Collaboration between the artist and Kenneth Tyler in the design and creation of this work began in January 1981 at the studios of Tyler Graphics Ltd. the various size sheets of handmade paper, each with the publisher's watermark, were made for this project by Steve Reeves and Tom Strianese at the workshop's mill. Three of the pages are printed on chine appliqué. Proofing and edition printing of the lithographic images and text were done on a hand-fed, indirect flatbed press by Kenneth Tyler, Lee Funderburg and Roger Campbell. Typographic design by Antony Drobinski and Roberta Savage, New York City, using Bodoni Bold type. Binding executed by Walden / Lang Inc., New York City. prints and text leaves bound into printed wrappers with screw-bound cloth-covered boards portfolio case.…