Adja Yunkers 'Veronica II" Abstract Expressionist Minimalism Signed Lithograph

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Original 1977 adja yunkers (1900-1983) 'veronica ii' limited edition signed lithograph

this is just a great original piece. I purchased … more Original 1977 adja yunkers (1900-1983) 'veronica ii' limited edition signed lithograph

this is just a great original piece. I purchased a large collection of adja yunkers works about 10 years ago and have held onto a few fore my personal collection. I have always thought his work is outstanding and still have a handful in my collection. I pulled this one out yesterday and decided I would sell it. For those not familiar with the artist, I have included his biography below. This is a wonderful abstract expressionist minimalist lithograph titled veronica ii. Signed and dated lower right, titled and numbered from an edition of 70 lower left, all in pencil. Sheet measures 33 x 26 and is in outstanding condition. Really clean and vibrant. Along the top margin it looks as though perhaps the paper has darkened due to the bleeding of the black and blue ink used along the top margin. Still a wonderful original print. Print is stored in a tube and will be shipped that way.

For those not familiar with the artist, his biography from askart reads: "a major twentieth century abstract painter and printmaker, adja yunkers studied art in leningrad, berlin, paris and london. His first solo exhibition took place in hamburg in 1921. For a period of fourteen years, yunkers lived and worked in paris. At the outbreak of world war ii (1939), he moved to stockholm, sweden, where he edited and published the arts magazines, ars and creation. Adja yunkers settled permanently in the united states in 1947. During the following years important exhibitions of his woodcuts, lithographs and paintings were held at the smithsonian institute, the corcoran gallery, the art institute of chicago and the los angeles county museum of art. The prints of adja yunkers are today included in the following collections: the victoria and albert museum, london, the hamburg kunsthalle, the stockholm national gallery, the rijksmuseum, amsterdam, the bibliotheque nationale, paris, the museum of fine arts, boston, the corcoran museum, harvard university and the museum of modern art, new york.

Before 1960, the majority of yunkers's graphic art was in the medium of the color woodcut. During the 1950's decade, he established himself at the forefront of american woodcut creation, along with louis schanker and seong moy. Concentrating on large compositions with complex color printings, yunkers introduced painterly conceptions in his woodcuts, including the added devices of brushwork. Beginning in 1960, however, the artist began experimenting with these concerns in another medium -- lithography. Working at the now famous tamarind lithography workshop in los angeles, yunkers created two of his finest series of lithographs during this year, salt (five lithographs) and skies of venice (ten lithographs). Textural qualities and lightness of form became yunkers's primary objectives and during this period he worked closely with the tamarind master printer, bohuslav horak, to achieve these challenging effects. " less