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Double page plate (folios 6 verso and 7) from LAISSES
1975 · Lift ground aquatint, soft ground etching, and drypoint with roulette, printed in color
irreg. composition 12 x 19 11/16" (30.5 x 50 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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René Pierre Tal-Coat
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Figuration
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None documented
4
Institutional Exhibitions
28
Works in Collection
57
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Contemporary Print Acquisitions, 1986�1988
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1988
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Artists and Writers
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1978
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Fifty Modern Paintings and Sculpture Especially Donated for the Benefit of the 30th Anniversary Fund of The Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960
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Recent Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1951
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Why this artist matters now
René Pierre Tal-Coat was a French painter and sculptor whose abstract work emerged in the postwar period, developing a gestural vocabulary rooted in organic forms and tactile surfaces. Working primarily in oil and bronze, he emphasized the material presence of paint and material itself, bridging figuration and abstraction through emphatic handling and surface texture.
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