$200
Robert Kipniss "Picket Fences" lithograph; pencil signed "Kipniss" to bottom right and numbered "50/250" to bottom left; double matted; measures approximately 26-3/4" x 23-1/4" with silver painted frame and has a sight image of approximately 16-7/8" x 13-3/8".Robert Kipniss, painter and printmaker, was born in New York City in 1931. Kipniss studied at the Art Students League in 1947, Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, 1948-50, and the University of Iowa, receiving a BA degree in English literature in 1952, and an MFA in painting and art history in 1954. In his career, Robert Kipniss has had over 200 one-man shows since the first in New York in 1951. Robert Kipniss is represented in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, The British Museum, London, the Albertina, Vienna, Austria, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London (diploma piece); the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Morgan Library, New York, among others. He was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1980, and to the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London in 1998. He has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of American Graphic Artists and The Artists Fellowship. He has also received the Speicher-Hassam Purchase Award from the American Academy of
Auctioneer:
Bremoauctions
Date:
2015-11-21
