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Robert Ryman

SELECTED WORKS
Untitled [1]
1972
Etching and sugarlift aquatint (ink: White Lead) on Rives BFK with deckled edges

Image/plate size: 21 11/16 x 21 13/16 inches (55.1 x 55.4 cm)
Paper size: 23 9/16 x 23 15/16 inches (59.8 x 60.8 cm)
Frame size: 25 1/4 x 25 1/2 inches (64.1 x 64.8 cm)
Edition of 50
Signed and dated top right within plate, numbered top left within plate
(Inventory #30431)

Untitled, from 10 From the Bowery 1969-1971
1969
Silkscreen

Image/paper size:  25 3/4 x 25 3/4 inches  (65.4 x 765.4 cm)
Edition of 100
Signed and dated lower center in image, numbered upper center in image
(Inventory #30724)

Untitled [5]
1972
Aquatint (ink: White Lead) on Rives BFK with deckled edges

Edition of 50, AP
Image/plate size: 11 13/16 x 11 7/8 inches (30 x 30.2 cm)
Paper size: 19 1/2 inches diameter (49.5 cm diameter)
Signed and dated bottom margin, centered to the right; numbered top margin, to the top left edge
(Inventory #32756)

Untitled [2]
1975
Aquatint (ink: 50% Titanium White and 50% White Lead) on Ivory Smooth Lennox 100 paper

Edition of 50, plus 15 AP
Image/paper size: 35 1/2 x 35 1/8 inches (90.2 x 89.2 cm)
Signed, dated, and numbered lower left; impression within printed plate, the edition number in unprinted area.
(Inventory #30738)

Untitled [4]
1975
Aquatint printed from two plates (ink: Titanium White)

Image size: 35 3/8 x 34 15/16 inches (89.9 x 88.7 cm)
Paper size: 35 11/16 x 35 7/16 inches (90.6x 90 cm)
Edition of 50
Signed and dated lower left; numbered far right, the impression number within the bottom of the printed plate, the edition number in the bottom margin.
(Inventory #30731)

“E” from the set “Four Aquatints and One Etching”
1990-1991
Etching

Image/paper size: 35 1/8 x 35 5/16 inches (89.2 x 89.7 cm)
Frame size: 39 1/4 x 39 1/4 inches (99.7 x 99.7 cm)
Edition of 80
Signed, dated and numbered in graphite
(Inventory #25338)

Untitled
1993-1994
Inked aquatint on Twinrocker Buff paper

Image/plate size: 12 7/8 x 12 7/8 inches (32.7 x 32.7 cm)
Paper size: 13 1/2 x 16 5/8 inches (34.3 x 42.2 cm)
Edition of 75
Signed along left edge, numbered upper left and dated bottom in image
(Inventory #29421)

Painting Without Paint
1995
Two-color screenprint on Inomaki Handmade Japan paper with cut edge

Edition of 100
Image/paper size: 23 7/8 x 18 inches (60.6 x 45.7 cm)
Signed ‘RYMAN’, dated and numbered top left
(Inventory #31835)

Additional Information
Biography

Robert Ryman was born May 30, 1930 in Nashville, Tennessee. Ryman studied at the Tennessee Polytechnic Institute and the George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, before serving in the United States Army from 1950 – 1952. In 1952, Ryman relocated to New York where he made his first paintings while working as a security guard at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in the early 1950s. Ryman was intrigued by the abstract expressionist works of Rothko, de Kooning, Still and Pollock and became curious about the act of painting and began experimenting in 1955. Ryman reduces his paintings to the bare minimum: the square format and white color (he uses an extremely reduced vocabulary) but his work is varied because he changes the scale and the texture. Close to minimal art, his work may be distinguished from it by the importance he gives to the painted surface and to the painter’s touch.


Ryman’s work is shown in a permanent exhibition at the Hallen für neue Kunst in Schaffhausen, installed in 1983. His first solo exhibition was at the Paul Bianchini Gallery in 1967. A traveling exhibition in 1993-1994, organized by the Tate Gallery in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York included venues such as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. A recipient of numerous honors, Ryman has been awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Scholarship (1974), the Skowhegan Medal from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1985), and he was elected in 1994 to The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York.


Robert Ryman currently lives and works in New York City.

Artist’s Exhibitions at Krakow Witkin Gallery