Yellow Collage
Gift of Longview Foundation Inc., in memory of Audrey Stern Hess, 1975
Catalogue
- Year
- 1960
- Dimensions
- 23 x 26 1/8 in. (58.4 x 66.4 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Conrad Marca-Relli
Artist
Drawing
Conrad Marca-Relli was an American abstract painter and collage artist whose layered, gestural compositions emerged from the postwar New York School. Working primarily in oil and canvas collage, he built complex surfaces by tearing and reassembling painted fragments, creating a dynamic tension between composition and accident. His work occupied a distinctive middle ground between gestural abstraction and constructive process, influencing generations of artists working with collage as a formal language rather than representational device.
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- Conrad Marca-Relli
- Year
- 1960
- Dimensions
- 23 x 26 1/8 in. (58.4 x 66.4 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1960-322472
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified