Polyptych
1953
Artist, American, born Latvia, 1900 - 1983
Artwork overview
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Medium
color woodcut on five sheets of wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (a): 98.4 × 61.5 cm (38 3/4 × 24 3/16 in.)
sheet (b): 118.75 × 55.25 cm (46 3/4 × 21 3/4 in.)
sheet (c): 116.4 × 129 cm (45 13/16 × 50 13/16 in.)
sheet (d): 119.06 × 54.93 cm (46 7/8 × 21 5/8 in.)
sheet (e): 93.66 × 60.96 cm (36 7/8 × 24 in.)
overall: 121.92 × 229.87 cm (48 × 90 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1954.12.162.a-e
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Catalogue Raisonné
Miller 1969, no. 73
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
the artist, New York; (Borgenicht Gallery, New York); Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, 1953; acquired 1954 by the National Gallery of Art
Associated Names
Bibliography
1969
Miller, Jo. Adja Yunkers, Prints 1927-1967. New York: Brooklyn Museum, 1969, no. 73.
Inscriptions
a) "Yunkers - 53" lower right margin, graphite. "Power of Circumstance" lower left margin, graphite, artist's hand.
b) "Yunkers - 53" lower right margin, graphite. "Personal Epiphany" lower left margin, graphite, artist's hand.
c) "Yunkers - 53" lower right margin, graphite. "Magnificat" lower left margin, graphite, artist's hand.
d) "Yunkers -53" lower right margin, graphite. "Chaos of Unreason" lower left margin, graphite, artist's hand.
e) "Yunkers - 53" lower right margin, graphite. "Graveyard of Cathedrals" lower left margin, graphite, artist's hand.
Markings
a) "LJR" verso, lower left sheet and lower right sheet, stamped black ink, stamped twice.
b) "LJR" verso, lower left sheet, stamped black ink. "73" verso, lower center sheet, stamped black ink.
c) "LJR" verso, lower left sheet, stamped black ink. "73" verso, lower right sheet, stamped black ink.
d) "73" verso, lower right sheet, stamped black ink.
e) "LJR" verso, lower left sheet, stamped black ink.