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RICHARD DIEBENKORN (1922-1993)
Touched Red
etching with aquatint and drypoint in colors, on Rives paper, 1991, signed and dated in pencil, numbered 75/85 (there were also ten artist's proofs), published by Crown Point Press, San Francisco, with their blindstamp
Image: 2378 x 16 in. (606 x 406 mm.)
Sheet: 3534 x 2638 in. (908 x 670 mm.)
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Diebenkorn routinely cut up working proofs, pasting or pinning them onto others. Touched Red exemplifies this practice, about 40 cutouts were pasted onto various working proofs. Using this provisional method, Diebenkorn tested possible solutions and registered his next move. For example, there was a mushroom-like mass in the upper left corner in early proofs that was replaced by rectangle which was subsequently etched into the plate and appears in the final print.

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