Mirko Basaldella
Little Chimera
1956
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Antoni Tàpies
1968
From the early 1950s Antoni Tàpies explored materials of art making, mixing paint with impoverished matter, such as detritus or earth. Later, he incorporated ordinary found objects into his works, such as the rag and string found here. In its simplicity and frontality this composition resembles a stained concrete wall, which might also allude to the mutilated public walls that Tàpies saw in his youth during the Spanish Civil War.
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Artist | Antoni Tàpies |
Original Title | Drap i cordill |
Date | 1968 |
Medium | Pigments, sand, rag, string on cardboard mounted on canvas |
Dimensions | 108.5 x 75 cm |
Credit line | Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, Hannelore B. and Rudolph B. Schulhof Collection, bequest of Hannelore B. Schulhof, 2012 |
Accession | 2012.95 |
Collection | Schulhof Collection |
Type | Painting |
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Mirko Basaldella
1956
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Zoltan Kemeny
ca. 1957
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André Kertész
1945
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Unrecorded Nayarit artist (Ixtlán del Río culture)
300 BCE–400 CE
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