Abstract design in three colors: blue, orange black. One of four prints included in “The Four Elements Suite.”

"Fire Rose” is a relatively small format lithograph which is part of Gilot’s “Four Elements Suite” that featured in a show of the artist’s printmaking held at the Berman Museum in 1995. The theme of the four elements has been a staple of printmaking since the Renaissance. Gilot said of the project, “In a suite of lithographs which are meant to be seen together, I chose “The Four Elements” as a springboard to express differences, opposition and similarities woven into attractive compositions playing within a harmonic range of colors that echo one another on the rectangle of the page…. The general color scheme enhances relationship and concordances particularly between … “Fire Rose” and “Earth”. I also decided to print…”Fire Rose” and “Spring Water” on grey paper coupling the contrasting and complementary signs. In my mind the sequence is placed in the following order: “Air”, “Fire Rose”, “Earth”, and “Spring Water”. - Yoakum, Mel. “Stone Echoes: Original Prints by Françoise Gilot – A Catalogue Raisonné.” Collegeville: Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, 1995. pp. 37-38.

Printed in 3 colors: blue and orange from two stones, and black from one zinc plate.
Published jointly by the artist and Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM
Printed by Robert Blanchard, senior-printer at Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM

Other sources
Gilot, Françoise and Mel Yoakum. “Françoise Gilot Monograph 1940-2000.” With Foreword by Dina Vierny. Lausanne: Sylvio Acatos, 2000.