Dancers

 

Adja Yunkers

  1900 - 1983 (biography)

1946  

color woodcut 

15 5/8 x 10" image size 

pencil, lower right 

proofs only 

pencil titled and dated 

Brooklyn 22 

cream tissue 

 

artist 

17111 

SOLD

Perhaps the only impression of this early woodcut, the Brooklyn catalogue #22 notes "Dancers" as being 15-1/2" (rather than the 14-1/2" this impression is) and does not mention an edition size. This impression was originally purchased at AAA over 40 years ago. 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.