Lygia Pape Book of Creation 1959–60
- Medium
- Artist's book with sixteen unbound pages, some with goauche on board, paper, and string
- Dimensions
- Each: 12 x 12" (30.5 x 30.5 cm)
- Credit
- Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
- Object number
- 1349.2001.a-r
- Copyright
- © 2024 Projeto Lygia Pape
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Lygia Pape has 8 works online.
- There are 18,014 drawings online.
Installation views
We have identified these works in the following photos from our exhibition history.
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MoMA at El Museo: Latin American and Caribbean Art from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
Mar 4–Jul 25, 2004
5 other works identified
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MoMA at El Museo: Latin American and Caribbean Art from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
Mar 4–Jul 25, 2004
4 other works identified
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MoMA at El Museo: Latin American and Caribbean Art from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
Mar 4–Jul 25, 2004
2 other works identified
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Paper: Pressed, Stained, Slashed, Folded
Mar 11–Jun 22, 2009
8 other works identified
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Paper: Pressed, Stained, Slashed, Folded
Mar 11–Jun 22, 2009
2 other works identified
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Sur moderno: Journeys of Abstraction—The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift
Oct 21, 2019–Sep 12, 2020
5 other works identified
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Sur moderno: Journeys of Abstraction—The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift
Oct 21, 2019–Sep 12, 2020
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Sur moderno: Journeys of Abstraction—The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift
Oct 21, 2019–Sep 12, 2020
6 other works identified
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1996, Galeria Camargo Vilaça, São Paulo, acquired from the artist.
1996 - 2001, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York and Caracas, purchased through Galeria Camargo Vilaça.
2001, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired as partial and promised gift from Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, "Paralelos. Arte brasileira da segunda metade do século XX em contexto", March 21 - June 16, 2002 and tour:
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, July 11 - September 22, 2002
El Museo del Barrio, New York, "MoMA at El Museo: Latin American and Caribbean Art from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art", March 4 - July 25, 2004
Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, "Cruce de Miradas Tradiciones Plásticas de América Latina en la colección CPPC", August 2 - October 22, 2006
Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, "The Geometry of Hope: Latin American Geometrical Abstraction from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection", February 17 - April 5, 2007
MoMA Exh. #2022: "New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930 - 2006: Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions," November 21, 2007 - February 25, 2008
MoMA Exh. #2072: "Paper: Pressed, Stained, Slashed, Folded," Paul J. Sachs Prints and Illustrated Books Galleries, March 11 - June 23, 2009
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, "La Invención concreta. Collección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros", January 22 - September 16, 2013.
The Met Breuer, New York, "Lygia Pape", March 21 - June 18, 2017
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, "Latin American Concrete and Neo Concrete Art", February 24 - May 13, 2018
MoMA Exh. #2424, "Sur moderno: Journeys of Abstraction―The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Gift", 3rd Floor, East Gallery, [The Robert B. Menschel Galleries], October 21, 2019 - October 2, 2020
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