1971
Etching Diptych
Two 2.75″ x 3.75″ prints in a 16.25″ x 14.25″
Unique Print
Donated by the Estate of José Bernal
Signed/Unsigned
Framed

Cuban-American artist José Bernal (1925 – 2010) made his home in Skokie, Illinois and is best known for his abstract paintings, collages, and assemblages. Today, 114 of his works grace the collections of 12 museums in the U.S. and in the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid.

Bernal’s aesthetics stemmed from his Cuban birth and the experience of exile and renewal. His art has been described as modernist, abstract, and expressionist. The term postmodernist also may be applied to Bernal’s diverse and complex body of work, specifically as he rejected the notion of the new in art, a characteristic imbued in postmodern theory.

While much of Bernal’s artwork is painting, throughout his life, he published many prints. Nocturna para Estela is a diptych printed from a single deeply etched metal plate. The two versions are distinct with variation in the application of ink as well as the hue. The prints, like much of Bernal’s artwork, include elements of both representation and abstraction. “Nocturna” is a reference to both the night as well as a nocturne, a musical composition of a romantic or dreamy character suggestive of night

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