El Negro

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El Negro

Artist Robert Motherwell (American, 1915-1991)

Publisher Tyler Graphics, Ltd., Bedford Village, N.Y.

Printer text: Antony Drobinski and Roberta Savage, New York; plates: Kenneth Tyler, Lee Funderberg, and Roger Campbell

Binder Walden/Lang Inc., New York

Author Rafael Alberti (Argentine, 1902 - 1999)

Date1983

DimensionsBox: H: 17 in. (432 mm); W: 16 5/8 in. (423 mm); Depth: 2 1/4 in. (57 mm).
Book: H: 15 3/16 in. (385 mm); W: 15 1/2 in. (394 mm); Depth: 1 3/4 in. (44 mm).
Page: H: 14 15/16 in. (379 mm); W: 14 in. (356 mm).

MediumOriginal prints: 17 lithographs, some in colors, incl. 3 on chine appliqué. Text: letterpress in black and gray (typeface: Bodoni Bold). Paper: handmade cream wove, watermarked with a cube design.

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss

Object number

1984.816

Not on View

Label TextAlthough Motherwell had illustrated Alberti's A LAPINTURA in 1972, he only met the writer in 1980. Alberti had written the poem "El Negro Motherwell" or "Motherwell Black" in homage to Motherwell on the occasion of the opening of an exhibition of his painting in Madrid.Published Referencescf. Hogben, Carol, Rowan Watson, editors, From Manet to Hockney: Modern Artists’ Illustrated Books, London, 1985, no. 164, repr.

cf. Phillips, Elizabeth, The American Livre de Peintre, New York, The Grolier Club, 1993, no. 35

cf. Johnson, Robert Flynn, Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870--2000: The Reva and David Logan Collection of Illustrated Books, San Francisco, 2001, no. 170.

Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, The Bareiss Collection of Illustrated Books from Toulouse-Lautrec to Kiefer, 1985, no. 53

Toledo Museum of Art, Motherwell's El Negro, Feb. 14-May 11, 2003.