Carlos Cruz-Diez
El muro amarillo (The Yellow Wall)

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El muro amarillo (The Yellow Wall)
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ArtistVenezuelan, 1923–2019
CultureVenezuelan
Titles
  • El muro amarillo (The Yellow Wall)
Date1956
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsFrame: 28 15/16 × 23 5/8 in. (73.5 × 60 cm)
Credit LineFundación Privada Allegro Collection, museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment
Object number2021.349
Non exposé

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Object Type
ProvenanceCollection of the artist; Collection of Blanca Roux de León, Caracas; Collection of Fundación Privada Allegro, 2004.
The work comes with a certificate of authenticity (Fig. 13)

Exhibition HistoryCruz Diez in Gallery Buchholz, Madrid, 1956.

Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color sucede, Museu d'Art Espanyol Contemporani – Fundación Juan March, Palma de Majorca, Spain, February 25 - June 27, 2009; Museo de Arte Abstracto Español de Cuenca, July 17 - November 15, 2009.

Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color in Space and Time, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 6 - July 4, 2011.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
The work is signed and dated on the front, right-hand corner: Carlos Cruz-Diez, 56. The back has a newspaper article glued to it titled “Venezuela Tendrá su Plaza en el Corazón del París (Fig. 7).
Catalogue raisonnéN/A

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