Untitled from the series Splints (Sarrafos)
1987 · Acrylic on wood
77 15/16 x 70 7/8 x 3 5/8" (198 x 180 x 9.2 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Mira Schendel
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Mira Schendel worked across drawing, printmaking, and sculpture, creating delicate geometries and mark-making that engaged with language, spirituality, and abstraction. Born in Zurich and based in São Paulo from 1953, her practice emerged from postwar experimentalism, producing small-scale works on translucent paper and materials that explored the threshold between legibility and void. Her monotypes, graphite drawings on rice paper, and white-on-white compositions established her as a distinctive voice in Brazilian modernism.
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