Africa Suite no. 9
1970
no. 9 from the Africa Suite 1970
- Medium
- screenprint in two colours
- Measurements
- 80.8 × 59.2 cm (image) 81.5 × 60.2 cm (embossed plate mark) 103.5 × 72.2 cm (sheet)
- Catalogue/s Raisonné
- Terenzio & Belknap 48
- Edition
- ed. 23/150
- Printing/Publishing
- printed at Kelpra Studio, London; published by Marlborough Graphics
- Inscription
- printed in ink below image l.r.c.: Motherwell
inscribed in pencil l.l.: RM
inscribed in pencil l.r.: 23/150
chopmark l.r.: ROBERT / RM / MOTHERWELL
inscribed in pencil on reverse l.l.c.: 625 (in a circle)
stamped in grey ink on reverse l.l.c.: K (in a square) / 7516 (Kelpra Studio Stamp) - Accession Number
- 1997.222
- Departments
- International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Don and Carolyn Rankin, 1997
© Robert Motherwell /VAGA, New York. Licensed by VISCOPY, Sydney
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Abstract Expressionist painter Robert Motherwell first started exploring the print medium in the early 1960s when he was invited to make lithographs at Universal Limited Art Editions (ULAE) in New York. Motherwell became a committed printmaker and in 1970 was commissioned by Marlborough Graphics to make a suite of ten screenprints. These large prints were based on a series of ‘automatic’ brush and ink drawings that explore spontaneous, gestural mark-making. These drawings were reworked with white acrylic overpainting and white paper masking to achieve the silhouettes of the final works, which were printed using hand-cut stencils made by English printer Chris Prater of Kelpra Press.
