€210
Star Lot: An eyecatching original Richard Joseph Anuszkiewicz (American, b.1930 - d.2020) limited edition (98/425) screen print dating to 1968. Featuring a graphic composition of concentric squares with linear detail in a palette of greens, oranges and blues. Signed, editioned and dated to base. Anuszkiewicz is a well renowned artist internationally, with work fetching up to $38,000. Would benefit greatly from a light clean.
MM: 71 x 71 cm
Richard Anuszkiewicz is one of the masters of color in modern American art. His oeuvre has developed and evolved over a sixty-year period, but at the root of his approach certain key principles remain, most vitally the capacity of the eye to 'mix' complementary colors presented separately on the canvas. After training with the great Bauhaus artist and teacher Josef Albers at Yale, Anuszkiewicz carried the legacies of geometrical abstraction and tonal harmony a step further than his mentor by experimenting with an unprecedented range of color contrasts. The works he was creating by the early 1960s seemed to bring pigment alive on the canvas, making it vibrate, hum, or float in front of the picture surface. Combining these qualities with the illusory, architectonic and trompe-l'oeil effects of Op Art - a movement Anuszkiewicz helped to define and which, in its suggestion of visual movement, was an offshoot of Kinetic Art - generated a body of work which at once sat within various traditions and had a warmth and spiritual energy entirely its own.
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