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Lester JohnsonCITY GRACES Signed Lithograph Modern Women Pucci Print Dresses, Peach, Red, Tan1980
1980
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CITY GRACES is an original hand drawn lithograph by the NY figurative expressionist painter, Lester Johnson. Printed using hand lithography techniques on archival ARCHES paper 100% acid free, full bleed image, no margins. In CITY GRACES, a trio of doll-like female figures drawn in an expressive watercolor style, all looking outward and away, not at each other, posed crowded together in their Pucci style multi color dresses, a 1980's city scene with the front most figure holding a cigarette. Composition is printed in predominately yellow ochre with warm browns, peach flesh tone, tomato red, orange, coral, purple, green yellow and black.
Print size - 28 x 22 inches, unframed, full bleed image, no margins, excellent condition, pencil signed by Lester Johnson
Edition size - 175
Year published - 1980
As a figurative expressionist and member of the Second Generation of the New York School, painter Lester Johnson remained dedicated to the human figure as means of expression through the many stylistic changes of his oeuvre. Johnson exhibited his art at the Martha Jackson Gallery, Zabriskie Gallery, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, and James Goodman Gallery in New York as well as having been included in group shows at the Guggenheim, The Whitney, Museum of Modern Art, and Metropolitan Museum of Art. He was elected a member to both the American Academy of Arts & Letters and the National Academy of Design. Johnson lived and worked in New York City (on the Bowery), Springs, Milford (CT), Greenwich (CT), and Southampton, NY.
- Creator:Lester Johnson (1919 - 2010, American)
- Creation Year:1980
- Dimensions:Height: 28 in (71.12 cm)Width: 22 in (55.88 cm)
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- Condition:Fine condition, never been framed, pencil signed printers proof aside from the edition of 175, from the master printers private collection.
- Gallery Location:Union City, NJ
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU83232813843
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