Jesús Rafael Soto Neumann Vibration-Writing 1964

  • Not on view
Medium
Vinyl-acrylic on wood, painted steel, and nylon
Dimensions
40 3/16 × 67 15/16 × 6 5/16" (102 × 172.5 × 16 cm)
Credit
Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund in honor of Carolina Cisneros Phelps
Object number
875.2016
Copyright
© 2025 / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Department
Painting and Sculpture

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Provenance

The artist.
? - 2001, Galería D'Museo, Caracas.
2001 - 2016, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York, and Caracas, purchased through Galería D’Museo.
2016, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired as gift from Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.

Exhibition history

Caracas, Espacios Unión, "Del Siglo que se va. Doce Artistas del Siglo XX", August 1999

Buenos Aires, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, "Geo-metrías. Abstracción geométrica latinoamericana en la Colección Cisneros", March 14 - May 19, 2003

Austin, Blanton Museum of Art, “The Geometry of Hope. Latin american abstract art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros", February 20 - April 22, 2007 and tour:
New York, Grey Art Gallery, September 12 - December 8, 2007

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

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