Lygia Pape Untitled from the series Weavings (Tecelares) 1959

  • Not on view
Medium
Woodcut
Dimensions
composition and sheet: 9 1/16 × 9 5/16" (23 × 23.7 cm)
Publisher
Lygia Pape, Rio de Janeiro
Printer
Lygia Pape, Rio de Janeiro
Edition
few known impressions
Credit
Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund
Object number
595.2013
Copyright
© 2024 Projeto Lygia Pape
Department
Drawings and Prints

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Provenance

The artist.
? - 1993, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo.
1993 - 2013, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York and Caracas, acquired through Galeria Camargo Vilaça.
2013, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired as promised gift from Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.

Exhibition history

Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, "Geometric Abstraction, Latin American Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection / Abstracción Geométrica Arte Latinoamericano en la Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros", March 3 - November 4, 2001.

Museo 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 tour:
Museo de Arte Moderna de Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, July 11 - September 22, 2002.

Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, "Geo-metrías: Abstracción geométrica latinoamericana en la Colección Cisneros", March 14 - May 19, 2003 and tour:
Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales de Montervideo, Montevideo, July 3 - October 25, 2003.

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

Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, "The Geometry of Hope: Latin American Abstract Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection", February 20 - April 22, 2007 and tour:
Grey Art Gallery. New York University, New York, September 12 - December 8, 2007.

The Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey, "Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s-50s", February 16 - August 23, 2010 and tour:
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, June 26 - September 5, 2010.

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, “Making Space: Women Artists and Postwar Abstraction”, April 15 - August 13, 2017, The Edward Steichen Galleries.

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, "Concrete Matters", February 24 - May 13, 2018.

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