American Post War Pat Steir Breadfruit. 1983. Colour lithograph on light wove card. 85.5 x 81.5 cm (102.5 x 89 cm). Signed, dated, titled and numbered. - Slightly browned in sheet margin as well as somewhat creased and partly with handling marks, some corners slightly bumped, occasional pale small stain. Good overall. Excellent, high-contrast impression of the large-format image with margins. One of 144 copies. - Printed by Charles Cardinale Fine Creations Inc (with the dry stamp). - The edition was commissioned by the Lincoln Art Center in 1983 and shows the image of a pink breadfruit blossom in a dark field. - Pat Steir, who was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1940, became particularly well known in the 1970s for her monochrome paintings of roses. Her work is characterised by 19th century romanticism, abstract expressionism, Japanese woodcuts and Chinese landscape painting from the Song and Tang dynasties. - Steir's works are part of major international collections such as the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo - the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - the Museum of Modern Art, New York and others. Lithograph in colours on strong wove paper. Signed, dated, titled and numbered. Paper slightly browned in the margins, slightly creased and partly with handling marks, partly slightly bumped in corners, isolated faint small stain. Good overall. Superb, high-contrast impression of the large-format depiction with margin. - One of 144 copies. - Printed by Charles Cardinale Fine Creations Inc (with the dry stamp). - The edition was commissioned by the Lincoln Art Centre in 1983 and depicts a pink breadfruit blossom in a dark field. - Pat Steir, who was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1940, became particularly well known in the 1970s for her monochrome paintings in particular of roses. Her work is characterised by 19th century romanticism, abstract expressionism, Japanese woodcuts and Chinese landscape painting from the Song and Tang dynasties. - Steir's works are part of major international collections such as the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo - the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - the Museum of Modern Art, New York and others. 700