Lot #7: Artist Signed Yanni Posnakoff "Two Nudes" C.1960's Abstract Litho Numbered 285/390

(1933 2021)Yanni PosnakoffYanni Posnakoff was born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1933. He witnessed the wartime murder of his Greek mother and Bulgarian father. Unusually bright, Posnakoff was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 1954 and graduated from M.I.T. four years later as a naval architect. He then came to work in Baltimore as a maritime engineer, fell into the bohemian arts community, and had a brief passionate affair with the young actress and artist Maelcum Soul, whom filmmaker John Waters described as his first star.In 1965, he moved to New York, opened an arts caf and bakery, and made and widely exhibited his artwork. Obsessed with angels since childhood, he vowed to paint 100,000 angels of all shapes, sizes, and colors during his lifetime. "I used to see them as a child, even now I see them in some people," he says. Posnakoff has illustrated two books relating to the subject, Children's Letters to God (a best-seller which has been translated into seven languages) and Ask Your Angels. In 1988, Posnakoff opened the Angel Gallery