[LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB]. MOTHERWELL. -- PAZ. Three Poems. SIGNED.
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Nov 14, 2024
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[LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB]. MOTHERWELL, Robert (1915-1991), illustrator. -- PAZ, Octavio (1914-1998). Three Poems. New York: The Limited Editions Club, [1988].
Large folio. 26 lithographs by Robert Motherwell. Original tan linen with mounted illustration on front; publisher’s folding case (some very light soiling at edges).
LIMITED EDITION, number 479 of 750 copies, SIGNED BY PAZ AND MOTHERWELL. Robert Motherwell was first introduced to the poetry of Octavio Paz while an undergraduate at Stanford University. It was to Paz and James Joyce in particular that Motherwell would credit his interest in modernism, a style which would influence Motherwell’s visual art through the rest of his life.
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