Self-Portrait
1941 · Oil on canvas
32 x 24" (81.3 x 60.8 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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José Pancetti
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PaintingGeometric AbstractionFiguration
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1
Works in Collection
5
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- • Figuration
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The Latin-American Collection of the Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1943
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José Pancetti was a Brazilian painter who reconciled geometric abstraction with observational precision in landscape and still life. Working in Rio de Janeiro during the postwar period, he developed a distinctive sensitivity to light and atmospheric condition through oil and watercolor. His practice bridged modernism and figuration, establishing a formal vocabulary that remained rooted in direct observation while engaging contemporary abstract principles.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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