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Hércules Barsotti
Brazilian, 1914–2010 20 works onlineHércules Barsotti was born in São Paulo, where he worked as a chemist until 1939. He had also studied design and drawing and, after a few years experimenting with Surrealist painting, in the early 1950s he began making abstract drawings with an extreme economy of line and form.
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Provenance
1960 - 1996, The artist.
1996 - 2016, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York and Caracas, purchased through Sylvio Nery da Fonseca, Escritório de Arte, São Paulo.
2016, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired as promised gift from Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.
Exhibition history
Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, "II Exposición Nacional Neoconcreta", April 29, 1961
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 tour:
Museu de Arte Moderna de Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, July 11 - September 22, 2002
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
MoMA Exh. #2424, "Sur moderno: Journeys of Abstraction―The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift", 3rd Floor, East Gallery, [The Robert B. Menschel Galleries], October 21, 2019 - October 2, 2020
MoMA Exh. #2557: "2024: 4th Floor Collection" Gallery 421 (Visible Ideas), April 11, 2024 - August 19, 2024
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