Lygia Clark: The Abandonment of Art, 1948-1988
Lygia Clark: The Abandonment of Art, 1948-1988
Lygia Clark: The Abandonment of Art, 1948-1988
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Escadas, 1951
Staircase
Charcoal on paper
14 9/16 x 10 7/16" (37 x 26.5 cm)
Private collection
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Composição, versão 01, 1953
Composition, version 01
Oil on canvas
40 9/16 x 26 3/4" (103 x 68 cm)
Private collection, Rio de Janeiro
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Composição, 1953
Composition
Oil on wood
19 3/4 × 12 5/8 × 3/8" (50.2 × 32 × 1 cm)
Private collection, Rio de Janeiro
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Composição, c. 1952
Composition
Oil on canvas
16 9/16 × 22 1/16" (42 × 56 cm)
Collection Eugenio Pacelli P. dos Santos
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Construa você mesmo o seu espaço de viver, 1960
Build your own living space
Acrylic, wood
4 1/2 × 18 11/16 × 33" (11.5 × 47.5 × 83.8 cm)
Courtesy Associação Cultural "O Mundo de Lygia Clark"
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Quebra da moldura no. 4, 1954
Breaking the frame no. 4
Oil on canvas
41 15/16 × 35 13/16 × 13/16" (106.5 × 91 × 2 cm)
Private collection
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Série: quebra da moldura, 1954
Series: Breaking the frame
Gouache on cardboard
8 1/8 x 9" (20.7 x 22.8 cm)
Private Collection. Courtesy of Alison Jacques Gallery, London
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Descoberta da linha orgânica, 1954
Discovery of the organic line
Oil on canvas
36 11/16 x 36 11/16" (93.2 x 93.2 cm)
Collection Hecilda and Sérgio Fadel, Rio de Janeiro
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Superfície modulada, 1957
Modulated surface
Colored paper on paper
Plate: 11 3/4 × 3 15/16" (29.8 × 10 cm)
Private collection
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Superfície modulada, 1955
Modulated surface
Industrial paint on wood
24 7/16 × 33 7/8" (62 × 86 cm)
Collection Ana Eliza and Paulo Setubal
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Superfície modulada, versão 01, 1957
Modulated surface, version 01
Industrial paint on wood
19 1/2 × 37 3/16 × 3 1/8" (49.5 × 94.5 × 8 cm)
Collection Marcos Ribeiro Simon
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Planos em superficie modulada, 1956
Planes on modulated surface
Industrial paint on plywood
25 9/16 x 35 7/16 x 13/16" (65 x 90 x 2 cm)
Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Planos em superfície modulada no. 2, versão 01, c. 1957
Planes on modulated surface no. 2, version 01
Industrial paint on wood
31 1/2 x 26 3/4" (80 x 68 cm)
Collection Luiz Paulo Montenegro
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Planos em superfície modulada - série B no. 3, versão 01, 1958
Planes in modulated surface - series B no. 3, version 01
Industrial paint on wood
33 1/16 x 33 1/16" (84 x 84 cm)
Private collection
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Study for Planes in Modulated Surface, 1957
Study for Planos em Superficie Modula
Cut and pasted paper on paper
15 5/8 x 15 5/8" (39.7 x 39.7 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Latin American and Caribbean Fund
through gift of Kathy and Richard S. Fuld, Jr.
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Study for Planos em superfície modulada, 1957
Study for Planes on modulated surface
Cut and pasted paper on colored paper
11 13/16 x 11 13/16" (30 x 30 cm)
Private collection
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Study for Planos em superfície modulada, 1957
Study for Planes on modulated surface
Cut and pasted paper on colored paper
8 1/4 x 8 1/4" (21 x 21 cm)
Private collection
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Study for Planos em superfície modulada, 1957
Study for Planes on modulated surface
Cut and pasted paper on colored paper
7 15/16 x 7 7/8" (20.1 x 20 cm)
Private collection
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Study for Planos em superfície modulada, 1957
Study for Planes on modulated surface
Cut and pasted paper on colored paper
15 3/8 x 15 3/4" (39 x 40 cm)
Kravis Collection
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Study for Planos em superfície modulada, 1957
Study for Planes on modulated surface
Cut and pasted paper on colored paper
7 13/16 x 12 1/16" (19.9 x 30.7 cm)
Private collection
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Study for Planos em superfície modulada, 1957
Study for Planes on modulated surface
Collage on cardboard
10 1/16 x 11" (25.6 x 28 cm)
Private collection
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Study for Planos em superfície modulada, 1957
Study for Planes on modulated surface
Cut and pasted paper on colored paper,
9 1/16 x 10 1/16" (23 x 25.5 cm)
Private collection
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Unidade, versão 01, 1959
Unit, version 1
Synthetic polymer paint on wood
11 13/16 x 11 13/16" (30 x 30 cm)
Rio de Janeiro private collection
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Unidade, 1958
Unit
Industrial paint on wood
11 15/16 x 11 15/16" (30.3 x 30.3 cm)
Collection Ricardo Rego
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Study for Espaço modulado, 1958
Study for Modulated space
Cut and pasted paper on colored paper
3 15/16 x 11 13/16" (10 x 30 cm)
Private collection
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Study for Espaço modulado, 1958
Study for Modulated space
Cut and pasted paper on colored paper
11 13/16 x 3 15/16" (30 x 10 cm)
Private collection
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Study for Espaço modulado, 1958
Study for Modulated space
Cut and pasted colored paper on paper
9 3/4 x 3 7/8" (24.7 x 9.9 cm)
Private collection
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Study for Espaço modulado, 1958
Study for Modulated space
Cut and pasted colored paper on paper on balsa wood
7 7/8 x 7 7/8" (20 x 20 cm)
Private collection
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Study for Superfície modulada no. 3, (1957)
Study for Modulated surface no. 3
Cut-and-pasted colored paper on colored paper
11 3/4 x 3 7/8" (29.9 x 9.9 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the generosity of the
Edward John Noble Foundation and Committee on Drawings Funds
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Espaço modulado no.6, versão 04, 1958–1982
Modulated space n. 6, version 4
Automotive paint on wood
35 7/16 x 11 13/16 x 2 3/16" (90 x 30 x 5.5 cm)
Private Collection
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Espaço modulado no. 2 C, versão 01, 1958
Modulated space n. 2, version 01
Industrial paint on wood
11 3/4 x 3 7/8 x 1/4" (29.9 x 9.9 x 0.6 cm)
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Adolpho Leirner Collection of Brazilian
Constructive Art, museum purchase funded by Caroline Wiess Law Accessions
Endowment Fund
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Study for Ovo linear, 1958
Study for Linear egg
Cut and pasted colored paper on paper and graphite
5 1/8 x 5 1/8" (13 x 13 cm)
Courtesy Associação Cultural "O Mundo de Lygia Clark"
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Casulo, 1965
Cocoon
Copper
16 3/4 × 16 3/4 × 2 9/16" (42.5 × 42.5 × 6.5 cm)
Collection Eugenio Pacelli P. dos Santos
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Study for Bicho, 1960
Study for Critter
Balsa wood, industrial paper, adhesive tape, and graphite
Variable dimensions
Private collection. Courtesy Alison Jacques Gallery, London
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Study for Bicho, 1960
study for Critter
Balsa wood, adhesive tape, and pencil
Variable dimensions
Private collection
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Study for Bicho, 1960
Study for Critter
Graphite, adhesive tape, balsa wood
Variable dimensions
Private collection
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Study for Trepante, 1964
Study for Climber
Each: paper, adhesive tape, and pencil
Variable dimensions
Private collection
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Caranguejo, 1960
Crab
Aluminum
Variable dimensions
Private collection, London. Courtesy Alison Jacques Gallery
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Monumento a todas as situações, 1960
Monument to all situations
Aluminum
Variable dimensions
Private collection. Courtesy of Alison Jacques Gallery, London
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Objeto vindo de um mundo de fora, versão 01, 1961
Object coming from a world outside, version 1
Aluminum
Variable dimensions
Private collection
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
O antes é o depois, versão 02, 1963
The before is the after, version 02
Stainless steel
Variable dimensions
Collection Rose and Alfredo Setubal
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Pancubismo, versão 01, 1961/1983
Pancubism, version 01
Aluminum
Variable dimensions
Collection Eduardo Duvivier Neto
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Bicho, 1960
Critter
Aluminum
Variable dimensions
Private collection
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Bicho, 1963
Critter
Aluminum
Variable dimensions
Collection Rose and Alfredo Setubal
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Bicho, 1960
Critter
Anodized aluminum
Variable dimensions
Private collection, Fortaleza, Brazil
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Bicho, c. 1960
Critter
Aluminum
Variable dimensions
Collection Andrea and José Olympio
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Estruturas de caixas de fósforos, versão 02, 1964
Matchbox structures, version 02
Gouache, matchboxes, and glue
Variable dimensions
Collection Patricia and Washington Olivetto
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Estruturas de caixas de fósforos vermelho, 1964
Matchbox structures red
Gouache, matchboxes, and glue
Variable dimensions
Private Collection. Courtesy of Alison Jacques, London
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Trepante, versão 01, 1964
Climber, version 01
Copper and wood
Variable dimensions
Glenstone
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Caixa trepante, versão 01, 1965
Boxed climber, version 01
Copper and tin
10 x 10 x 1 7/8" (25.4 x 25.4 x 4.8 cm)
Collection Jones Bergamin
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Caminhando, 1963
Walking
Paper, glue, scissors
Variable dimensions
Courtesy Associação Cultural "O Mundo de Lygia Clark"
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Respire comigo, 1966
Breathe with me
Industrial rubber
3/16 x 15 3/4" (0.4 x 40 cm)
Courtesy Associação Cultural "O Mundo de Lygia Clark"
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
O eu e o tu, 1967
The I and the you
Industrial rubber, foam, vinyl, acrylon, zipper, water, fabric
66 15/16 x 26 3/4 x 3 1/8" (170 x 68 x 8 cm)
Courtesy Associação Cultural "O Mundo de Lygia Clark"
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Máscara abismo com tapa-olhos, 1968
Abyssal mask with eye-patch
Nylon, plastic, stone, fabric
43 5/16 x 23 5/8" (110 x 60 cm)
Courtesy Associação Cultural "O Mundo de Lygia Clark"
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Estruturas vivas, 1969
Live structures
Rubber bands
Variable dimensions
Courtesy Associação Cultural "O Mundo de Lygia Clark"
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Arquitetura biológica, 1969
Biologic architecture
Nylon, plastic
Sheet: 203 × 157" (515.6 × 398.8 cm)
Courtesy Associação Cultural "O Mundo de Lygia Clark"
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Almofada leve-pesada, 1976-1988
Light-heavy pillow
Nylon, sand, styrofoam, and rock
27 9/16 × 11 1/4" (70 × 28.5 cm)
Psychoactive Collection
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Lygia Clark, Brazilian, 1920–1988
Canibalismo, 1973
Cannibalism
Industrial rubber, plastic, fabric
66 15/16 x 26 3/4 x 3 1/8" (170 x 68 x 8 cm)
Courtesy Associação Cultural "O Mundo de Lygia Clark"
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