1140691

Lester Johnson, Lithograph, DaVinci's #1140691

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Lester Johnson, Lithograph, DaVinci's #1140691
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Artist: Lester Johnson

Title: DaVinci's Restaurant

Year: 1980

Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil

Edition: 108/150

Paper Size: 28" x 21"



LESTER JOHNSON (1919- )





Lester Johnson began his painting career as an abstract expressionist, but in the mid-1950s abandoned that style for a distinctive figurative approach in which he pays homage to the modern everyman. Using a somber, limited palette-often only brown, black and dull blue-and applying his paint thickly, he produces strong, powerful canvases which convey a sense of the isolation of the individual.



Johnson was born in Minneapolis in 1919. He began his studies at the Minneapolis School of Art, then went to the St. Paul School of Art, and finally to the Art Institute of Chicago. He moved to New York City in 1947 and had the first exhibition of his abstract paintings there four years later.



For years, Johnson had a studio in the Bowery so that he could study the despair and hopelessness of the men who lived there, rejected by society. His aim, as his style evolved, was to give them dignity.



"I wanted to prove that man is more than a man-to put him on a pedestal," he explained. "The human and the monumental are contradictory, but I wanted to put them together."



He succeeded developing a monumental sense of the human figure, unlike anything done before. His figures, many of them in hats, wearing nondescript black or brown ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1980</td></tr>


<tr><td>Height:28</td></tr>

<tr><td>Width:21</td></tr>

<tr><td>Title:Lester Johnson, Lithograph, DaVinci's</td></tr>



<tr><td>Location:New York City, USA</td></tr>
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