YURI KUPER
Born 1940, Moscow, Russia; lives in France and New York City
Yuri Kuper’s work is steeped in time, memory, and silence. Kuper was born in Russia in 1940 and was put through a very formal and painstaking beaux-arts training. He was permitted to immigrate to Israel at the age of 32, soon thereafter moving to London and finally settling in France. He currently has a countryhouse in Normandy and a second studio in New York City.
Kuper is a self proclaimed “professional player with surfaces.” The plain objects used in his paintings and mixed media work – a spoon, a palette, a table – are presented with skill and reverence. Yuri Kuper’s work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Staaliche Museen Preusshicher Kulturbesitz, Berlin, and The Achenbach Foundation at the Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, among others. In 2008, his paintings were featured at the Bouquinerie de l'Institut, Paris at the MWFAF 2008.
PAINTINGS
STILL LIFE WITH PAINT BRUSH IV Mixed Media on canvas 13" x 21 ½" 2002 signed
SILVER TUBE Mixed media on Canvas 8 ¾" x 11" 1999 signed
STILL LIFE WITH FUNNEL Mixed media on canvas 73" x 73" 1998 Signed
LIMITED EDITION WORKS
NEW YORK PORTFOLIO
NEW YORK PORTFOLIO #1 Photograph (printed lithographically) 41 ¼" x 29 ½" 1997 Edition of 25 unframed
NEW YORK PORTFOLIO #2 Photograph (printed lithographically) 29 ½" x 41 ¼" 1997 Edition of 25 unframed
OBJECTS
CHAIR I WITH APPLE/CHAIR II WITH APPLE (sold as pair) Mixed media 15" x 36" x 16" each 1998
SEAU AU ROBINET Mixed media on metal object 11" x 12" x 10" 1994
TABLE WITH APPLE Mixed media 33.5" x 21.5" x 19.5" 1997
SCULPTURE
MEMORIES OF TIN SOLDIERS Bronze 12" x 17" x 2 ½" 1980
EASEL Cast Bronze 84” x 20” x 21” 1989
LA BOITE Bronze 6" x 4 3/4" x 7 3/4" 1982
WORKS ON PAPER
SAW ON THE SNOW Gouache on paper 8.5" x 12.5" 1994 Signed
TREE FROM THE SNOW SERIES Mixed media on paper 9 1/2" x 7" 1990 Signed
NEW YORK PORTFOLIO #1 Mixed media on paper 1997 Signed