La Casa de la Mancha
Robert Motherwell
La Casa de la Mancha
aquatint & etching
1984
An original hand-signed Robert Motherwell aquatint & etching print.
1984
Original aquatint, lift-ground etching and aquatint printed in two colors (orange, black) on Whatman wove paper.
Hand-signed in pencil in the margin lower left Motherwell.
A superb artist’s proof impression of the definitive state, apart from the numbered edition of 70, annotated in pencil in the margin also lower left (there were 8 other proofs of various types). Published by the artist in collaboration with Tyler Graphics, Ltd., Bedford Village, New York, bearing the artist’s blindstamp in the sheet at the lower right corner; printed by Catherine Mosley, assisted by Diana Donaldson at the artist’s studio, Greenwich, Connecticut.
Catalog: Walker Art Center 349; Belknap 319
Image Size: 17 ½ x 23 ½ inches
Sheet Size: 24 ½ x 30 inches
This etching is compositionally related to Motherwell’s 1969 painting “Open No. 97 (The Spanish House)”. The painting was inspired by the white façade of a house with orange shutters in a photograph of the harbor of Cadaques, Spain, that Motherwell came across in a book of color photographs of Spain.
