Untitled from Actualidad Gráfica-Panorama Artistico
1978 · Screenprint with cut and pasted additions
composition (irreg.): 27 3/4 × 12 3/8" (70.5 × 31.5 cm); sheet: 30 5/16 × 22 3/8" (77 × 56.8 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Édgar Negret
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Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1969
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Latin-American Art, 1931�1966, from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1967
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
1955–1956
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Édgar Negret was a Colombian sculptor who developed a geometric abstract language using painted steel and aluminum throughout the postwar period. His constructions combined industrial materials with bold primary colors, creating dynamic spatial compositions that referenced both constructivism and the machine aesthetic. Negret's work established him as a central figure in Latin American abstraction during the mid-twentieth century.
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Museum of Modern Art
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