Artist
Alfredo HlitoArgentinean, 1923–1993
CultureArgentinean
Titles
- Derivación del cuadrado (Derivation of the Square)
Date1954
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsCanvas or panel: 21 5/8 × 17 11/16 in. (55 × 45 cm)
Credit LineFundación Privada Allegro Collection, museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2021.348
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 204
On view
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Department
Latin American ArtObject Type
Exhibition HistoryAlfredo Hlito: Pintura 1946–1969, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico, Abril de 1969
Alfredo Hlito: Obra pictórica 1945–1985, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, 1987
Arte Concreto Invención - Arte Madi, Galeria Von Bartha, Basel, 1994 (not included in catalogue)
América fría: La abstracción geométrica en Latinoamérica, 1934-1973, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, 11 de febrero – 15 de mayo de 2011
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
N/A
The work is signed, titled and dated on the back, upper right-hand corner: Hlito, 1954, “Derivación del cuadrado” (Fig. 8).
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