Lygia Pape. Untitled

Lygia Pape

Untitled

1956

Acrylic on wood

On view MoMA, Floor 5, 512 The David Geffen Wing
Medium Acrylic on wood
Dimensions 13 3/4 × 13 3/4 × 3 1/8" (35 × 35 × 8 cm)
Credit Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund in honor of Sharon Rockefeller
Object number 859.2016
Department Painting & Sculpture

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Provenance

The artist.
? - 1997, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, acquired from the artist.
1997 - 2016, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York, and Caracas, purchased through Galeria Camargo Vilaça.
2016, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired as promised gift from Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.

Exhibition history

São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, "Paralelos: Arte brasileira da segunda metade do século XX em contexto. Colección Cisneros ", March 21 - June 16, 2002 and tour:
Rio de Janeiro, Museu de Arte Moderna de Rio de Janeiro, July 11 - 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 Lygia Pape. Obras de la Colección Cisneros", December 7, 2005 - February 19, 2006

Madrid, Fundación Juan March, "La abstracción geométrica en Latinoamérica", February 11 - May 15, 2011

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

MoMA Exh. #2462: “Collection: 1880s-1940s”, 5th Floor, gallery 512, “Circle and Square, Joaquin Torres-Garcia and Piet Mondrian”, November 14, 2020 -

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