Blue Diamond
1979 · Screenprint
composition (irreg.): 19 15/16 x 19 15/16" (50.6 x 50.6 cm); sheet: 22 1/4 x 29 7/8" (56.5 x 75.9 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Ilya Bolotowsky
American-Russian, 1907–1981
Saint Petersburg, Russia
PaintingGeometric AbstractionDe StijlAbstract Art
Representation
None documented
5
Institutional Exhibitions
10
Works in Collection
20
Assets Indexed
0
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
90%
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Cultural Positioning
Movements
- • Geometric Abstraction
- • De Stijl
- • Abstract Art
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art, 1910�1980
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1985–1986
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American Drawn and Matched
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1977
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Greetings!
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1966
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Recent Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960–1961
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New Horizons in American Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1936
About
Why this artist matters now
Ilya Bolotowsky was a Russian-born abstract painter and sculptor who worked predominantly in geometric abstraction and neoplasticism from the 1930s onward. He developed a rigorous vocabulary of primary colors, straight lines, and rectangular forms influenced by Mondrian and the De Stijl movement. Bolotowsky lived and worked in New York from 1923, becoming a founding member of the American Abstract Artists group and a key figure in establishing geometric abstraction in postwar America. His paintings and wall-sized murals reduced composition to essential relationships between color and form, executed with technical precision across canvas, panel, and architectural commissions.
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Art Institute of Chicago
In collection
Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Auction History
| Work | Auction House | Date | Estimate | Hammer Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rago | Nov 2025 | $20,000 – $30,000 | Unsold | |
| Rago | Sep 2025 | $5,000 – $7,000 | Unsold |
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