The Revenge of the Ugly
<p>Luis Frangella, <em>The Revenge of the Ugly</em>, 1985. Watercolor and ink on paper, sheet: 17 3/8 × 23 3/4 in. (44.1 × 60.3 cm) Image: 17 1/4 × 23 3/8 in. (43.8 × 59.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Michael J. Ettner 2024.398</p>
Catalogue
- Year
- 1985
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 17 3/8 × 23 3/4 in. (44.1 × 60.3 cm) Image: 17 1/4 × 23 3/8 in. (43.8 × 59.4 cm)
- Collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Artist
- Luis Frangella
Artist
Painting
Luis Frangella was an Argentine painter whose gestural abstractions combined expressive brushwork with architectural forms and spatial illusion. Working across the 1970s and 1980s, he developed a distinctive vocabulary of layered marks, structural lines, and color fields that resisted pure abstraction while remaining fundamentally non-representational. His practice engaged with the formal concerns of postwar painting while maintaining a distinctly Argentine sensibility.
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- Luis Frangella
- Year
- 1985
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 17 3/8 × 23 3/4 in. (44.1 × 60.3 cm) Image: 17 1/4 × 23 3/8 in. (43.8 × 59.4 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1985-166494
Source
- Collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Source
- whitney
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified