Roberto Obregón

Water as a Cycle (El Agua como un ciclo)

1978

Cut-and-pasted paper and printed paper, watercolor, stamped ink, pencil, paint, typewriting, and glassine envelopes with wax on three sheets of paper with embossing

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Provenance

The artist.
? - 1991, Galería Sotavento, Caracas.
1991 - 2017, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York and Caracas, purchased through Galería Sotavento.
2017, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired as gift from Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.

Medium Cut-and-pasted paper and printed paper, watercolor, stamped ink, pencil, paint, typewriting, and glassine envelopes with wax on three sheets of paper with embossing
Dimensions Each: 30 1/2 × 24 1/2" (77.5 × 62.2 cm)
Credit Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund in honor of Sharon Schultz
Object number 637.2017.a-c
Department Drawings and Prints

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Roberto Obregón

Roberto Obregón

Venezuelan, born Colombia. 1946–2003 2 works online

The artist first began this close study by photographing a single flower over the course of a week, before experimenting with dissection, removing petals one at a time, numbering them, reproducing them in paint, watercolor, or rubber and finally reordering each petal in neat rows and columns on canvas, paper, or wall.

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