Polyptych
1953
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View on museum website →Medium
color woodcut on five sheets of wove paper
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.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1954.12.162.a-e
About the Artist
Adja Yunkers
Adja Yunkers (1900–1983), born Adolf Eduard Vilhelm Junker in Riga in what was then the Governorate of Livonia in the Russian Empire, was one of the most internationally peripatetic and stylistically adventurous printmakers and painters of the twentieth century. Restlessly mobile from an early age, Yunkers studied art successively in Leningrad, Berlin, Paris, and London, accumulating a breadth of ...