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Artists›Louise Nevelson

Louise Nevelson

1899–1988

Sculpture

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153

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300

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Louise Nevelson built monumental wall assemblages from found wooden fragments, crates, spindles, and architectural salvage, unified by a single coat of matte black, white, or gold paint. The monochromatic surface collapses the individual components into dense, shadow-filled reliefs that operate simultaneously as painting and sculpture. Born in the Russian Empire in 1899, she emigrated to the United States as a child and went on to become a defining figure in American assemblage. Her outdoor sculptures extended the same additive, environmental logic into public space at architectural scale.

Source: Pace Gallery · Trust score: 100% · Updated 2mo ago

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago The Metropolitan Museum of Art Tate Whitney Museum of American Art Whitney Museum of American Art

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Artworks (153)

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Nevelson's World

1983 · Monograph with one screenprint and one multiple of black polyester resin

page 12 15/16 x 11 13/16" (33 x 30 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Untitled from Nevelson's World

1983 · Multiple of black polyester resin

composition 9 1/2 x 8 7/16 x 5/16" (24.1 x 21.5 x 0.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Unbound plate from Nevelson's World

1983 · Screenprint

irreg. composition 10 7/16 x 9 13/16" (26.5 x 25 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Series of an Unknown Cosmos XVII

1979 · Cut, torn, and pasted paper, colored paper, painted paper, metallic foil, and wood on paper on board

16 × 20" (40.6 × 50.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Series of an Unknown Cosmos, CII

1978 · Cut, torn, and pasted paper, colored paper, painted paper, metallic foil, and wood on board

24 × 20" (61 × 50.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Beyond--Q17

1977 · black fiber-tipped pen and black paper collage

Sheet: 76.7 x 56 cm (30 3/16 x 22 1/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Moon Garden (Black)

1976 · Cast paper toned with matte black spray paint

93 × 67.5 cm (36 5/8 × 26 5/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Moon Passage

1976 · Lithograph, etching, aquatint and embossing with collage additions

plate: 6 15/16 x 7 5/16" (17.6 x 18.6 cm); sheet: 18 7/16 x 15 7/8" (46.8 x 40.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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