Lygia Clark The Inside Is the Outside 1963

  • MoMA, Floor 5, 507 The Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Galleries
Medium
Stainless steel
Dimensions
16 x 17 1/2 x 14 3/4" (40.6 x 44.5 x 37.5 cm)
Credit
Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund in honor of Adriana Cisneros de Griffin
Object number
1117.2011
Department
Painting and Sculpture

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Provenance

The artist.
[Alvaro Clark, inherited from the artist]
? - 1997, Galeria César Aché, Rio de Janeiro.
1997 - 2011, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York, and Caracas, purchased through Galeria César Aché.
2011, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired as gift from Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.

Exhibition history

Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, "Specters of Artaud, Language and the Arts circa 1952", September 18 - December 17, 2012

Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, "La invención concreta. Collección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros", January 22 - September 16, 2013

MoMA Exh. #2226: "Painting and Sculpture Changes 2013", 4th Floor, gallery 26, added December 20, 2013 - April 14, 2014

MoMA Exh. #2286: “Lygia Clark: The Abandonment of Art, 1948-1988”, 6th Floor, The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Gallery, May 10 – August 24, 2014

MoMA Exh. #2335: "Transmissions: Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America, 1960–1980", 6th Floor, The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Gallery, September 5, 2015 - January 3, 2016

MoMA Exh. #2376: "Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction", 3rd Floor, The Edward Steichen Galleries, April 15 - August 13, 2017

New York, Met Breuer, "Delirious: Art and the Irrational, 1950-1980", September 13, 2017 - January 14, 2018

MoMA Exh. #2424: "Sur moderno: Journeys of Abstraction—The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift", 3rd Floor, 3 East, October 21, 2019 - September 12, 2020

St. Louis, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, "Assembly Required", March 4 - July 31, 2022

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