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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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Provenance
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? - 1994, Alain Jathiere, Caracas.
1994 - 2004, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York, and Caracas, acquired through Alain Jathiere.
2004, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired as gift from Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.
Exhibition history
MoMA Exh. #1931: "Painting and Sculpture: Inaugural Installation", 4th Floor, gallery 20, November 20, 2004 - November 6, 2007
As of August 23, 2005, 4th Floor, gallery 20 has been renumbered as 4th Floor, gallery 21.
MoMA Exh. #2022: "New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006: Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions", 3rd Floor, November 21, 2007 - February 25, 2008
Albany, New York State Museum, "Latin American and Caribbean Art: Selected Highlights from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art", May 17 - October 13, 2008
MoMA Exh. #2135: "On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century", 6th Floor, The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Gallery, November 21, 2010 - February 7, 2011
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, "La invención concreta. Collección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros", January 22 - September 16, 2013
MoMA Exh. #2335: "Transmissions: Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America, 1960–1980", 6th Floor, The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Gallery, September 5, 2015 - January 3, 2016
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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