Catalogue
- Dimensions
- 18 5/8 × 9" (47.3 × 22.9 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Mira Schendel
Artist
Painting
Mira Schendel was a Brazilian artist who worked across drawing, printmaking, and sculpture, creating delicate geometries and mark-making that engaged with language, spirituality, and abstraction. Born in Zurich and based in São Paulo from 1953 onward, her practice emerged from postwar experimentalism, producing small-scale works on paper and translucent materials that explored the threshold between legibility and void. Her monotypes, graphite drawings on rice paper, and white-on-white compositions of the 1960s and 1970s established her as a singular voice in Brazilian modernism.
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Untitled from the series Splints (Sarrafos)
1987 · Acrylic on wood
Trabalho concebido em 1971
1975 · Artist's book
Untitled from the series Typed Writings (Datiloscritos)
1974 · Typewriting, ink, and transfer type on paper
Untitled (Disks)
1972 · Transfer lettering and graphite on paper between acrylic sheets, 4 pins and nylon fishing wire
Untitled from Graphic Objects (Objetos gráficos)
1967 · Graphite, transfer type, and oil on paper between transparent acrylic sheets with transfer type
Untitled from the series Letters and Lines (Letras e Linhas)
1966 · Oil transfer drawing on paper
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- Mira Schendel
- Dimensions
- 18 5/8 × 9" (47.3 × 22.9 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-0000-M118331
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
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