THREE POEMS (OCTAVIO PAZ) [CR 387.1-27], 1988
132-page illustrated book with 26 original lithographs by Robert Motherwell, enclosed in a clamshell box
21.5 x 18 inches each; cover size 21.25 x 18.5 inches
Edition of 750
132-page illustrated book with 26 original lithographs by Robert Motherwell, enclosed in a clamshell box
21.5 x 18 inches each; cover size 21.25 x 18.5 inches
Edition of 750
132-page illustrated book with 26 original lithographs by Robert Motherwell, enclosed in a clamshell box
21.5 x 18 inches each; cover size 21.25 x 18.5 inches
Edition of 750
Suite of 26 original lithographs on various handmade Japanese papers attached with Chine-appliqué to Cartere Enrico Magnani paper paired with letterpress printed poetry. The book consists of 132 unnumbered pages bound with hand-sewing into boards covered with natural linen and embellished with RED WING (image also used in CR 414 and CR 441) enclosed in linen covered clamshell box.
Author: Octavio Paz translation by Eliot Weinberger
The text is entirely printed in letterpress and consists of three selections from Paz's work from "The Collected Poems of Octvio Paz, 1957-1987, edited and translated by Eliot Weinberger.
Signed "Octavio Paz" and "RM" in pencil on the colophon page.