Seascape acrylic painting on canvas by Metropolitan museum and MOMA collected artist Yuri Kuper (b. 1940) This textured representation of a moody brutalist ocean at night evokes memories. Museum collections: Metropolitan Museum, New York Museum of Modern Art, New York National Library of Congress, Washington Ministère de la Culture, Paris
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris
National Gallery, Oslo
Uéno Royal Museum, Tokyo
Shirakaba Museum, Japon
Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulterbesitz, Berlin Musée Pouchkine, Moscow
The Sainsbury Collection, University of Norwich
École d’Art, Boston
University of Chicago, Northern Illinois For Yuri Kuper, "hypnosis" is not a mystical ritual, but a specific philosophy regarding how a viewer should interact with a painting. He famously stated: “The painting has to hypnotize, in the same way that the surface of the contemplated object hypnotized the painter." Painting is 21.5 x 18 in with a hand painted frame half inch wide total size 22.5 x 19 inches