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Richard Anuszkiewicz

American

“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.”

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Winter Suite (Light Blue with Blue), OP Art Etching by Anuszkiewicz
By Richard Anuszkiewicz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Considered a major force in the op art movement, Anuszkiewicz is concerned with the optical changes that occur when different high-intensity colors are applied to the same geometric ...
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1970s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz

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Etching, Aquatint, Intaglio

Sun Keyed, OP Art Silkscreen by Richard Anuszkiewicz
By Richard Anuszkiewicz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Richard Anuszkiewicz, American (1930 - ) Title: Sun Keyed Year: 1972 Medium: Screenprint (unsigned) Edition: 3000 Image Size: 12 x 14 inches Size: 14 x 18 in. (35.56 x 45....
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1970s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz

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Screen

Annual Edition, Lt. Ed. 1970s mixed media Op Art silkscreen on board hand signed
By Richard Anuszkiewicz
Located in New York, NY
Richard Anuszkiewicz Annual Edition, 1970 Silkscreen on Masonite Signed and dated in graphite pencil lower right recto. Edition of 100 8 × 5 1/10 × 1/5 inches Unframed Signed and dat...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Richard Anuszkiewicz

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Masonite, Screen, Graphite

Richard Anuszkiewicz, Unique 1960s Signed Op Art, Geometric Abstract painting
By Richard Anuszkiewicz
Located in New York, NY
Richard Anuszkiewicz Op Art painting, inscribed to documentary music composer, 1968 Acrylic on Masonite painting. Signed and dated by Richard Anuszkiewicz; inscribed to the film comp...
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1960s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz

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Acrylic

Metallic Water, unique 1960s Op Art painting (signed), Art Institute of Chicago
By Richard Anuszkiewicz
Located in New York, NY
Richard Anuszkiewicz Metallic Water, 1964 Painting with Liquitex on canvas. (1964 Art Institute of Chicago Exhibition and J.L. Hudson Gallery) Signed boldly and dated 1964 on the ver...
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1960s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz

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Mixed Media, Acrylic, Canvas

Temple of Evening Reds, 1983 Acrylic OpArt by Cleveland School Artist
By Richard Anuszkiewicz
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Anuszkiewicz (American, 1930-2020) Temple of Evening Reds, 1983 Acrylic on canvas Signed verso 36 x 36 inches 36.75 x 36.75 inches, framed Richard Anuszkiewicz was born in E...
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1980s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz

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Acrylic

Richard Anusziewicz Annual Edition. Limited Ed. Op Art silkscreen on masonite
By Richard Anuszkiewicz
Located in New York, NY
Richard Anuszkiewicz Annual Edition, 1987-1988 Limited edition silkscreen on masonite Signed and dated by the artist lower right in pencil Frame Included (floated within a box frame)...
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1980s Abstract Geometric Richard Anuszkiewicz

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Masonite, Screen

Richard Anuszkiewicz 1963 Original Painting
By Richard Anuszkiewicz
Located in San Francisco, CA
Richard Anuszkiewicz: 1930-2020. Very important and well listed American artist. He has auction results as high as $250,000. He was the leader of what would be called OP Art short fo...
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1960s Op Art Richard Anuszkiewicz

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Acrylic

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Richard Anuszkiewicz Sale Prices

Sold DateSold PriceCategoryMediumCreation Year
2025$1,539More Prints, Abstract PrintsScreen Print1968
2025$6,500Contemporary Art, PrintsPaper1979
2025$2,125Abstract PrintsEtching, Aquatint, Intaglio1979
2025$2,700Abstract PrintsScreen Print1979
2025$1,000Abstract PrintsScreen Print1973
2025$500Abstract PrintsScreen Print1972
2025$760Abstract PrintsScreen Print1969
2024$2,000Abstract PrintsEtching, Aquatint, Intaglio1979
2024$1,500Abstract PrintsScreen Print1970
2024$480Abstract PrintsScreen Print1972
2024$1,580More Prints, Abstract PrintsScreen Print1968
2024$600Abstract PrintsScreen Print1972
2024$1,100Abstract PrintsScreen Print1970
$1,734
Average sold price of items in the past 12 months
$480-$6,500
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