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Artists›Dóra Maurer

Dóra Maurer

Hungarian, 1937

WA-00034633

Budapest, Hungary

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WikidataQ1167159 ULAN500009251

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MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/42457
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Dóra Maurer is a Hungarian artist working across painting, drawing, and experimental photography since the 1960s. Her practice centers on systematic investigation of color, line, and perception, often employing geometric grids and serial methods to generate visual variations. Working in Budapest during the postwar period, she developed a rigorous, process-driven approach that bridges abstraction and optical inquiry. Her work engages with both the formal constraints of the grid and the phenomenological effects of repetition and subtle modulation.

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Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern ArtNew York Tate

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Artworks (12)

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Tracing Space I, Tracing Space II, and Plan

1979 · Gelatin silver prints on cardboard and graphite on paper

(.a): 27 1/2 × 39 7/16" (69.9 × 100.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Parallel Lines: Race (with Zoltán Lábas); Interaction for Two Cameras, with Explanation (Párhuzamos vonalak. Versenyfutás (Lábas Zoltánnal); Interakció 2 kamerára, magyarázattal) & Parallel Lines; Interaction for Four Cameras (with Erdély, Berényi, Lábas) (Párhuzamos vonalak; Interakció 4 kamerára, közrm?köd?k: Erdély, Berényi, Lábas)

1977 · Gelatin silver prints and drawing on paper

Overall: 46.1 × 96 cm (18 3/16 × 37 13/16 in.); Mount: 70 × 100 cm (27 9/16 × 39 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Hidden Structures 6

1977 · Pencil on folded paper

19 5/8 x 25 1/2" (49.8 x 64.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Hidden Structures 3

1977 · Pencil on folded paper

19 5/8 x 25 1/2" (49.8 x 64.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Hidden Structures 4

1977 · Pencil on folded paper

19 5/8 x 25 1/2" (49.8 x 64.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Hidden Structures 1

1977 · Pencil on folded paper

19 5/8 x 25 1/2" (49.8 x 64.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Hidden Structures 5

1977 · Pencil on folded paper

19 5/8 x 25 1/2" (49.8 x 64.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Hidden Structures 2

1977 · Pencil on folded paper

19 5/8 x 25 1/2" (49.8 x 64.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Hidden Structures 1-6

1977 · Graphite on six sheets of paper

19 5/8 x 25 1/2" (49.8 x 64.8 cm) each

Museum of Modern Art

Seven Foldings

1975 · Drypoint on paper

image: 578 x 400 mm

Tate

Reversible and Changeable Phases of Movement, Study No. 4

1972 · 24 gelatin silver prints and graphite on paper

21 5/8 × 19 11/16" (55 × 50 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Throwing the Plate from Very High

1970 · Three gelatin silver prints mounted on paper and one etching

composition (photograph, each): 5 1/8 x 7 1/16" (13 x 18 cm); sheet (photograph mount): 27 1/2 x 19 11/16" (69.8 x 50 cm); plate (etching, irreg.): 17 1/8 x 12 1/8" (43.5 x 30.8 cm); sheet (etching): 27 5/16 x 19 9/16" (69.3 x 49.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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12 published of 22 catalogued · 19 with image

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1 published1 img
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Seven Foldings
1975 · Tate · 1 prov
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