Adja Yunkers - Salt IV

Salt IV

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Title:	Salt IV
Artist:	Yunkers, ADJA (Riga, Latvia, 1900 - New York City, 1983)
Date:	1960
Medium:	Original Lithograph
Publisher:	Tamarind
Printer:	Bohuslav Horak
Note:	Adja Yunkers: 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 Adja Yunkers:'s graphic art was in the medium of the colour woodcut. During the 1950's decade he established himself at the forefront of the American woodcut, along with Louis Schanker and Seong Moy. Concentrating on large compositions with complex colour printings, Adja 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. Note that Horak has added his 'HB' in a circle blindstamp to the lower right of the image in Salt IV.
	Salt was originally conceived as a book but was finally published as a suite of five independent lithographs. Yunkers worked upon these lithographs during November and December of 1960. Salt IV was printed at the Tamarind Workshop on December fifth, sixth and seventh in an edition of 100 signed impressions, plus 7 artist proofs and 9 Tamarind Impressions. It bears the Tamarind Workshop catalogue number of 168. An impression of Salt IV is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. * (Richard Oldenburg, ed., American Prints 1960-1985 in the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1986, p. 435.)
Edition:	Limited edition of one hundred impressions, numbered 95/100.
Size:	16 3/4 X 12 3/4 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed upon thick, laid paper with the 'Rives' watermark and with full, deckled margins as published by the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles in 1960. Signed in pencil by Adja Yunkers and numbered, 95/100, along the lower margin. Also the lower margin contains the printer's blindstamp. A brilliantly printed impression and in excellent condition throughout. Salt IV represents a superb, original example of the famous abstract art of Adja Yunkers.
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