Mira Schendel. Untitled from Graphic Objects (Objetos gráficos)

Mira Schendel

Untitled from Graphic Objects (Objetos gráficos)

1967

Graphite, transfer type, and oil on paper between transparent acrylic sheets with transfer type

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Medium Graphite, transfer type, and oil on paper between transparent acrylic sheets with transfer type
Dimensions 39 5/16 x 39 5/16 x 3/8" (99.8 x 99.8 x 1 cm)
Credit Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund in honor of Luis Pérez-Oramas
Object number 866.2016
Department Drawings and Prints

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Mira Schendel

Brazilian, born Switzerland. 1919–1988 60 works online

In the early 1960s, the artist Mira Schendel received a large gift of thin Japanese paper. It transformed her practice, giving rise to thousands of Monotipias and culminating in her Objetos gráficos of the 1970s, made while she dedicated a decade to the investigation of the medium of drawing and its potential.

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Provenance

The artist.
? - 2001, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo.
2001 - 2016, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York and Caracas, purchased through Galeria Luisa Strina.
2016, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired as promised gift from Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.

Exhibition history

São Paulo, IX Bienal de São Paulo, 1967;

Venice, XXXIV Biennale di Venezia, 1968;

São Paulo, Paulo Figueiredo Galería, March 1989;

São Paulo, Galeria de Arte do SESI, “Mira Schendel: no vazio do mundo,” October 1, 1996 - January 26, 1997;

Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, "Mira Schendel a forma volátil", June 3, 1997 - July 20, 1997;

Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, "Paralelos: Arte brasileira da segunda metade do século XX em contexto. Colección Cisneros", March 21 - June 16, 2002 and travelled to Rio de Janeiro, Museu de Arte Moderna de Rio de Janeiro, July 11, 2002 - September 22, 2002;

Buenos Aires, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, "Geo-metrías: Abstracción geométrica latinoamericana en la Colección Cisneros", March 14 - May 19, 2003;

San José, Galería Teor/ética, "A contra corriente. Mira Schendel, Gego y Ligia Pape. Obras de la Colección Cisneros", December 7, 2005 - February 19, 2006;

Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, "Cruce de Miradas. Visiones de América Latina en la Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros", August 2, 2006 - October 21, 2006;

MoMA Exh. #2074: “Tangled Alphabets: Leon Ferrari and Mira Schendel,” April 5 - June 15, 2009 and travelled to Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, "November 24, 2009–March 1, 2010 and Porto Alegre, Fundação Iberê Camargo, April 8, 2010 –July 11, 2010;

Brazil, Porto Alegre, “Desenhar no Espaco: Artistas Abstratos do Brasil e da Venezuela na Coleção Patricia Phelps de Cisneros,” July 29 - October 31, 2010 and travelled to São Paulo, Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo, November 27, 2010 - January 30, 2011;

Madrid, Museo Reina Sofia,“La invención concreta [Concrete Invention]: Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros,” January 23 – September 16, 2013;

London, Tate Modern, “Mira Schendel,” September 25 - January 19, 2014;

MoMA Exh. #2419: "2019–2021: 4th Floor Collection," Gallery 413 (Breaking the Mold), October 21, 2019–September 25, 2020 (MoMA closed to the public from March 13 - August 24, 2020; lights were off in these galleries from March 13 - July 1, 2020);

MoMA Exh. #14191 “4th Fl: 404, Calligraphic Abstraction”, Gallery 404, May 15, 2025 - February 20, 2026.

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