Lygia Pape Book of Creation 1959–60

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Additional text
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

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Provenance

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.

Exhibition history

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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