Artworks · Magdalena Abakanowicz

Figure on a Trunk

2000 · Bronze

96 in. × 8 ft. 7 in. × 24 in. (243.8 × 261.6 × 61 cm) Weight: 756 lb. (342.9 kg)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cecyna Flower

1999 · Ink and charcoal on paper

39 3/8 x 29 5/8" (100 x 75.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Birth of Fly

1994 · Charcoal on paper

29 3/8 x 39 1/2" (74.6 x 100.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Winged Trunk

1989 · Wood, burlap, rope, and welded steel

8' 10 1/4" x 16' 4 7/8" x 39 3/8" (269.9 x 500.1 x 100 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Great Ursa

1987 · Wood and steel

66 in. × 16 ft. 4 in. (167.6 × 497.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Androgyne III

1985 · Burlap, resin, wood, nails, and string

48 in. × 64 5/8 in. × 24 in., 50 lb (121.9 × 164.1 × 61 cm, 22.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pregnant

1981 · Birch branches, wire and fabric, twenty-three parts

Two bundles, 21 1/2 x 69 1/2 x 22" (54.6 x 176.5 x 55.8 cm) and 21" x 7'8" x 22 1/2" (53.3 x 233.8 x 57.1 cm); twenty-one bundles ranging from 16 1/2 (41.9 cm) to 71" (180.3 cm) in length

Museum of Modern Art

Body 81F

1981 · Charcoal on paper

39 3/8 x 29 5/8" (100 x 75.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Embryology

1978 · Burlap, cotton gauze, hemp rope, nylon and sisal

Overall display dimensions variable

Tate

Backs

1976 · Burlap and resin

object, each: 660 x 580 x 680 mm

Tate

Head

1976 · molding, bast fiber

Overall: 26 x 20 x 13 cm (10 1/4 x 7 7/8 x 5 1/8 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Le Feu et La Cendre (Fire and Cinders)

1973 · Linen and sisal, discontinuous weft plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts, supplementary wrapping wefts and some ground wefts forming cut and uncut weft pile; self-patterned by ground weft floats; appliquéd with smaller rectangle of same weave, wrapped cord, yarn bundles forming cut pile and three-dimensional form of knotting

134.2 × 183.4 cm (52 3/4 × 72 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Abakan Orange

1971 · Sisal and steel

Display dimensions: 4010 x 2900 x 3700 mm

Tate

Brun Rouge

1970 · Sisal, hemp, and horsehair, slit tapestry weave with raised coils of supplementary wefts; attached strips of weft-faced plain weave and lengths of horsehair

149.8 × 107.5 cm (59 × 42 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Humming Bird I

1970 · Sisal and hemp, plain weave with discontinuous wefts and with supplementary pile wefts forming cut and uncut pile and additional warps knotted into weave; plied and wrapped

118.1 × 84.2 cm (46 1/2 × 33 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Abakan Red

1969 · Sisal and metal

Display dimensions: 4050 x 3820 x 4000 mm

Tate

Yellow Abakan

1967 · Sisal

124 x 120 x 60" (315 x 304.8 x 152.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Czarna

1966 · Sisal, rope and horsehair

300 × 156 cm (118 1/8 × 61 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Helena

1964 · Wool, cotton, sisal, and horsehair

118 × 189" (299.7 × 480.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Les Traits (Maquette for Tapisserie 21 brune)

1963 · Cut-and-pasted painted, printed, and colored papers, with ink and gouache on paper

sheet: 7 9/16 × 15 3/8" (19.2 × 39 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Jacquard loom punched cards for the fabric book cover of Tkanina Polska (Polish Fabric)

1959 · Set of 80 cardboard Jacquard punched cards attached with string

overall, unfolded, (approx.): 16 7/8 × 202 1/2" (42.8 × 514.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Design for Jacquard fabric book cover of Tkanina Polska (Polish Fabric)

1952 · Pencil and ink on graph paper

sheet: 5 11/16 × 6 1/8" (14.5 × 15.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art