RUDOLF BIKKERS, "Fugue" Pop Art, Contemporary Art, 1971 Serigraph 30" x 25"

ARTIST Rudolf Bikkers MEDIUM Serigraph on Paper DATES 1971 DIMENSIONS Sheet: 30 x 25 in. / 75.7 x 63.4 cm SIGNATURE Signed, "R. Bikkers '71" lower right in pencil TITLED "Fugue" lower left in pencil EDITION Edition: 150, this is "Serigraph 59/150" as written in pencil lower left. This is one piece from a portfolio of serigraphs that was inspired by Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet in G Minor. per Bikkers website: In 1972 Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano quintet in G minor provided the inspiration for my portfolio of five multi-coloured screen prints, in an edition of one hundred and fifty, titled prelude, fugue, scherzo, intermezzo and finale. Upon completion I sent one set to Mr. Shostakovich in Moscow and he graciously thanked me in a hand written letter. Rudolf Bikkers, artist, teacher and master printer, was born in Hilversum, Holland, in 1943. He graduated from the Jan van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht, Holland, in 1966 and immigrated to Canada that same year. For the past 45 years Bikkers has taught at various art schools in Ontario, the past 30 as professor at the OCAD University in Toronto, from which he retired in 2012.