Lithograph on Japon à la main, attached with chine appliqué to vélin d’Arches paper. Paper Size: 21.5 x 17.875 inches. Excellent condition. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, Three Poems, 1988. Published by The Limited Editions Club, New York; folio design and editing by Benjamin Shiff, New York; dry mounting of the printed Japon papers to the base sheets by Jo Watanabe Studios, Brooklyn, New York, and Horton Tank Graphics, Hadley, Massachusetts; printed by Trestle Editions Ltd., New York, under the direction of Bruce Porter, assisted by David Lantow and William Olsen, New York, 1988. Excerpted from the folio, The types used in this edition are Bauer Bodoni Bold and Bauer Bodoni Bold Italic cast by Fundición Tipográfica Neufville. The text was hand-set at Stamperia Valdonega. The poems have been printed on Arches paper at Wild Carrot Letterpress. The lithographs were printed at Trestle Editions Ltd. on various hand-made Japanese papers. They have been applied to the text sheets with intaglio presses at Renaissance Press and Wingate Studio. The lithographs have been edited to the poetry by Benjamin Shiff who also designed and produced this project. This edition consists of III presentations. XX portfolios with the lithographs appliqué on flat sheets bearing the appropriate facing text. Each sheet bearing a lithograph is signed by the artist and numbered I/XX-XX/XX. There are IV artist's proofs AP I/IV-AP IV/IV, III printer's proofs PP I/III-PP III/III, III hors commerce IC, to trial proofs, I bonà tirer BAT, I archive and I position proof. The second presentation consists of L portfolios of the lithographs without text, appliqué to Arches paper, each lithograph signed by the artist and numbered I/L - L/L. Of this presentation there are X artist's proofs AP I/X-MP X/X, five printer's proofs PP I/V-PP.V/V five hors commerce HC, V trial proofs, I bonà tirer BAT, I archive, and L position proof. The third presentation is the complete folio hand-sewn and bound with the lithographs drymounted to the text sheets, signed on the colophon by the artist and the poet, numbered I-DCCL. With XXX artist examples, numbered AP I/XXX-AP XXX/XXX. ROBERT MOTHERWELL (1915-1991) was an American abstract expressionist painter, printmaker, and editor of The Dada Painters and Poets: an Anthology. He was one of the youngest of the New York School, which also included Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Mark Rothko. Trained in philosophy, Motherwell then became an artist regarded as among the most articulate spokesmen and the founders of the abstract expressionist painters. He was known for his series of abstract paintings and prints which touched on political, philosophical and literary themes, such as the Elegies to the Spanish Republic.