Further Variations on a Sucker by Kenjilo Nanao

Further Variations on a Sucker by Kenjilo Nanao

Further Variations on a Sucker

Kenjilo Nanao

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Title

Further Variations on a Sucker

 
Artist

Kenjilo Nanao

  1929 - 2013 (biography)
Year
1972  
Technique
lithograph 
Image Size
28 x 22" image and sheet (bleed print) 
Signature
pencil signed, lower right image 
Edition Size
1 of 20  
Annotations
titled within image; blindstamp of the artist/printer in the lower right. 
Reference
Achenbach accession number 1972.53.286 
Paper
white wove 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
13939 
Price
$750.00 
Description

Kenji Nanao depicts a broad leafed plant with a swirling purple, red and white sucker growing from the center. A black border allows a window of 'bokashi' graded blue to white outdoor light to enter and illuminate the interior composition. He did a series of lithographs of the subject using different colors and backgrounds.

After learning lithography from Nathan Oliveira at the Art Institute in San Francisco in 1960, Nanao got a Ford Foundation grant to study lithography at Tamarind in Los Angeles in 1968, where he became a Master Printer, printing for other artists.

Kenjilo Nanao first became known for his delicate, surreal, and sometimes erotic lithographic still lifes with finely graded grounds of color, reminiscent of Japanese Shunga prints. Although lithography had been his medium of choice since his student days with Nathan Oliveira, in the early eighties he began to focus more attention on painting.

 

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