Artwork details

Artist

Nam June Paik

Title

Untitled from The New York Collection for Stockholm

Description

Untitled from The New York Collection for Stockholm

By Nam June Paik

This screenprint on paper was created as part of the iconic New York Collection for Stockholm portfolio, a collection of 30 prints designed to be sold in an edition of 300, with each artist donating their prints. Experiments in Art and Technology in New York arranged the portfolio of prints to be sold to raise money for the collection at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, a European museum that celebrated American artists.

Today, important museums around the world hold the Stockholm portfolio including the MET and MoMA in New York, the Georgia Museum of Art, the Chazen Museum of Art and the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, along with many others.

1973

Screenprint from a portfolio of seventeen screenprints, nine lithographs, two lithographs with screenprint, one photocopy, and one photograph.

30.5 x 22.9 cm

Hand-signed and numbered by Paik

Edition of 300

Date

1973

Medium

Screenprint

Edition

300

Signature

Signed

Sheet

30.5 x 22.9 cm

Status

Sold

Nam June Paik

Born in the 1930s, South Korean artist Paik Nam June studied in Korea, Japan and West Germany before moving to the United States to pursue his artistic career. Known as a trailblazer and credited with creating the field of Video Art in the 1960s, he was highly competent in a variety of media and was open to working with new technology to create innovative forms of art. Video Art is said to have been born when Paik used a Sony video camera to shoot footage of Pope Paul VI in New York City in 1965 and went on to exhibit the work.