The artist.
[Estate of Alfredo Boulton, Caracas, probably acquired from the artist]
? - 1990, Stanley Ellis, Caracas, inherited from Alfredo Boulton.
1990 - 2016, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York, and Caracas, purchased from Stanley Ellis.
2016, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, acquired as promised gift from Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.
Alejandro Otero The Bottle and the Lamp I 1947
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 45 1/2 × 28 3/8" (115.6 × 72.1 cm)
- Credit
- Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund
- Object number
- 847.2016
- Copyright
- © 2024 / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / AUTORARTE, Venezuela
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Alejandro Otero has 26 works online.
- There are 2,457 paintings online.
Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, "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
Ciudad Bolívar, Museo de Arte Moderno Jesús Soto, "Arte Contemporáneo Venezolano 1990-2004 en la Colección Cisneros", October 7, 2004 - January 30, 2005 and tour:
Maracaibo–Zulia, Centro de Arte de Maracaibo Lía Bermúdez, July 14 - October 2, 2005
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