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Richard AnuszkiewiczCelebrate New York (hand signed limited edition poster)1974
1974
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Richard Anuszkiewicz
Celebrate New York (hand signed limited edition poster), 1974
Silkscreen on wove paper
Hand-signed by artist, signed, dated and inscribed "to Lowell" on the front
39 × 25 inches
Unframed
This vintage 1974 Anuszkiewicz silkscreen is a rare collectible when hand signed, as the present work. It was created to celebrate legendary New York politician Ed Koch. Most New Yorkers remember Koch as the colorful, flamboyant and outspoken three-term mayor of the city. But before Koch became mayor he was in fact a two term member of the House of Representatives for New York. And in 1973 when Anuszkiewicz created this silkscreen, and 1974 when he signed it, Koch was still a Congressman. (He did not become mayor until 1978). Koch was an old-style Jewish politician with a classic, borscht belt type humor that helped to make him a beloved and at times controversial institution in the city. What many people don't know is that when Koch died in 2013, he chose to put the last words of the murdered journalist Daniel Pearl on his tombstone: "My father is Jewish, my mother is Jewish, I am Jewish."
- Creator:Richard Anuszkiewicz (1930, American)
- Creation Year:1974
- Dimensions:Height: 39 in (99.06 cm)Width: 25 in (63.5 cm)
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- Condition:Very good vintage condition with gentle overall handling.
- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1745212596842
Richard Anuszkiewicz
“I’m interested,” Richard Anuszkiewicz (1930–2020) once said, “in making something romantic out of a very, very mechanistic geometry.” Anuszkiewicz sought to achieve this romance through works juxtaposing vibrant colors in geometric configurations. The perceptual effects he created helped define the American Op art movement.
Anuszkiewicz studied color theory at Yale under Josef Albers and was greatly influenced by Albers’s approach. “The image in my work has always been determined by what I wanted the color to do,” Anuszkiewicz explained in a 1974 catalogue. “Color function becomes my subject matter, and its performance is my painting.”
He departed from his mentor, however, in the pulsating, illusory qualities he gave his work. One of his most famous paintings, Deep Magenta Square (1978), although similar in composition to Albers’s “Homage to the Square” series, is distinctly Op art in the way the striations surrounding the central square seem to vibrate and jump off the canvas.
Anuszkiewicz spent his entire career exploring optical effects through the manipulation of line and color, producing spectacular and timeless pieces of art. “Working with basic ideas will always be exciting,” he said in 1977. “And if a color or form is visually exciting in any profound sense, it will be that way in 10 or 20 years from now.”
Browse a variety of paintings and prints by Richard Anuszkiewicz at 1stDibs.
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