Indian artist Krishna Reddy WFUNA United Nations Cachet with autograph for Sale

Indian artist Krishna Reddy WFUNA United Nations Cachet with autograph For Sale

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Indian artist Krishna Reddy WFUNA United Nations Cachet with autograph:
$20.00

Six posters were produced by famous artists and the United Nations Development Programme to illustrate the theme of the conference. The U.N. Development Programme made these originaldesigns available to WFUNA for use on its cachet and artwork reproduction on this stamp issue. Of the six posters WFUNA chose the design of Krishna Reddy.

Krishna Reddy was an Indian master printmaker, sculptor, and teacher.

Reddy was considered a master in intaglio printmaking and after 1965 was an associate director at Hayter's Atelier 17. Atelier 17, a thriving artist workshop was founded in 1927 by Hayter and was originally located in Paris; however between 1939 and 1940 the workshop moved to New York City and in 1950 back to Paris. Atelier 17 has always been a meeting place to experiment with their art practices for both European and American artists including Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Juan Cardenas, Constantin Brâncuși, and Zarina Hashmi. While working at Atelier 17, Reddy was instrumental in developing a new printing process to produce multi-coloured prints from a single printing matrix by exploiting the viscosity and tackiness of the inks, subsequently named viscosity printing. Reddy would later teach the viscosity etching technique at Robert Blackburn (artist)'s Printmaking Workshop in New York.

Reddy received the Padma Shri award in 1972, in recognition of his distinguished contributions to art. Reddy was a guest professor and lecturer at many universities in the United States including Maryland Institute College of Art, Pratt Institute, Ruskin College School of Fine Art and Drawing, University of Texas and many more. In 2016 he was one of the subjects of the exhibition Workshop and Legacy: Stanley William Hayter, Krishna Reddy, Zarina Hashmi at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Krishna Reddy died on 22 August 2018 in New York, at the age of 93.