Boris Lurie

Untitled Compositions

Boris Lurie's "Untitled Compositions" is both an accomplished and powerful work of art by the New York artist. This original etching and engraving is meant to shock viewers into opening their eyes and think. Both etchings contain a variation of a swastika and over it a Star of David. Such emotionally charged symbols may suggest that the crimes and horrors of the Holocaust can never completely be obliterated. "Untitled Compositions" is an important, original example of the etched and engraved art created by Boris Lurie.

Original Soft Ground Etchings, Drypoint and Aquatint Engravings by Boris Lurie.

Untitled Composition

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Title:	Untitled Composition
Artist:	Lurie, Boris (Petersburg, Russia, 1924 - New York, 2008)
Date:	1962
Medium:	Original Soft Ground Etchings, Drypoint and Aquatint Engravings (A Set of two Etchings & Engravings on a Single Sheet of Paper)
Note:	Boris Lurie: An influential painter and printmaker, Boris Lurie was born in Russia. At the age of sixteen he was taken prisoner by the Nazis and imprisoned for a period of four years at Buchenwald and other concentration camps. After his liberation Lurie remained in Germany for a year and worked for the U.S. Army Counter-Intelligence. Boris Lurie moved to New York City in 1946 and began his art career there.
	Boris Lurie first gained national attention in 1960. During this year he, along with Sam Goodman and Stanley Fisher, created the 'No' art movement. The principle aim of 'No' art was to bring back into art the subjects of real life. It thus stood in opposition to the two most popular movements of the era, Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art.
	For the most part critics and curators of the day rejected Boris Lurie and 'No' art. As he has stated, "The art market is nothing but a racket. There is an established pyramid which everybody who wants to benefit from it has to participate - if he is permitted to participate." * Yet, Boris Lurie continued to produce his highly charged political and social imagery and, in 1963, his now famous collage, Railroad to America -- which superimposed a pin-up girl in front of victims of a concentration camp -- caused a major furor.
	Like Railroad to America, this original etching and engraving is meant to shock the viewer into opening his eyes and think. Both etchings contain a variation of a swastika and over it a Star of David. Such emotionally charged symbols may suggest that the crimes and horrors of the Holocaust can never completely be obliterated.
	Today museums such as the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, include examples of Boris Lurie's graphic art in their permanent collections. His art and the work of the 'No' art movement was the subject of major retrospective exhibitions at the University of Chicago (2001), the University of Nebraska and at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Edition:	Limited Edition of twenty-five impressions, Numbered 7/25
Reference:	* "Boris Lurie: Not Mince Matters", http://www.megakles.btinternet.co.uk./CCC/INTERVIEW/LURIE/2000BL
Size:	9 X 5 7/8 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Both etchings are printed on a single sheet of Rives paper and with full, deckled margins as printed in the limited edition of twenty-five impressions in 1962. Containing slight paper loss to the two upper corners (verso) from previously being affixed to a backing board. Both marks, however, are well away from the actual engravings. Else both etchings and engravings are finely printed impressions and in excellent condition throughout. Signed in pencil, dated and numbered, 'VII/XXV', by the artist along the lower margin. Untitled Composition represents both a scarce and important example of the famous art of Boris Lurie.
Subject:	Boris Lurie, original etching, the 'No' art movement, political and social imagery, the Holocaust, Buchenwald and other concentration camps.
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