Gouache on wood
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Jesús Rafael Soto
Venezuelan, 1923–2005 33 works onlineThe artist Jesús Rafael Soto remembered days working as a messenger in his childhood. It was something I never got tired of seeing, that vibrating mass floating in space and shining over the roads.
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[Denise René, Paris]
[Brook Street Gallery, London]
[Robert Lewin, London]
? - 2003, Manuel Vegas Chumaceiro, Caracas.
2003 - 2016, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York, and Caracas, acquired through Manuel Vegas Chumaceiro.
2016, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired as promised gift from Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.
Exhibition history
Lima, Museo de Arte de Lima, "Diálogos. Arte Latinoamericano desde la Colección Cisneros", July 22 - September 26, 2004 and tour:
Santiago, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, November 25, 2004 - February 28, 2005
Bogotá, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, May 5 - June 29, 2005
Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, "Cruce de Miradas. Visiones de América Latina en la Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros", August 2 - October 21, 2006
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
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, "Concrete Matters", February 24 - May 13, 2018
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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