Antonio Berni
El striptease de Ramona

El striptease de Ramona

© José Antonio Berni, Argentina

El striptease de Ramona
El striptease de Ramona
ArtistArgentinean, 1905–1981
CultureArgentinean
Titles
  • El striptease de Ramona
  • Ramona's Striptease
Date1963
PlaceArgentina
MediumXilo-collage, diptych
DimensionsImage (.A, Left Panel): 54 3/8 × 21 7/8 in. (138.1 × 55.6 cm)
Sheet (.A, Left Panel): 58 1/8 × 25 1/8 in. (147.6 × 63.8 cm)
Image (.B, Right Panel): 54 × 21 5/8 in. (137.2 × 54.9 cm)
Sheet (.B, Right Panel): 57 5/16 × 25 1/8 in. (145.6 × 63.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Eduardo and Eugenia Grüneisen
Object number2003.257.A,.B
Not on view

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Object Type
ProvenanceThe artist; by descent to his son, José Antonio Berni, Buenos Aires; sold to MFAH, 2003.

Exhibition History"The Passionate Adventure of the Real: Collage, Assemblage, and the Object in 20th Century Art," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 18, 2003–February 8, 2004.

"Brought to Light: Recent Acquisitions in Latin American Art," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, August 13, 2005–January 2, 2006.

"Modern and Contemporary Masterworks from Malba - Fundación Costantini," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 22–August 5, 2012.

“Antonio Berni: Juanito and Ramona,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 10, 2013–January 26, 2014; Phoenix Art Museum, June 28–September 28, 2014; Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, October 29, 2014–February 25, 2015.

"Delirious: Art and the Irrational, 1950-1980," The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September 13, 2017–January 14, 2018.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Back label on each: "DELMIRO MENDEZ E. HIJO S. A. / Transporte de Obras de Arte" Arte..."

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Don Juan, el amigo de Ramona o Don Juan, el pretendiente
Antonio Berni
1963
Xilo-collage-relief
2003.409
Ramona y el anciano o Ramona y el viejo
Antonio Berni
1962
Xilo-collage
2003.258
El conde amigo de Ramona
Antonio Berni
1963
Xilo-collage
2003.408
El coronel amigo de Ramona
Antonio Berni
1963
Xilo-collage
2003.407
Ramona aprendiz o Ramona pupila
Antonio Berni
1963
Xilo-collage
2002.3244
Ramona vive su vida
Antonio Berni
1963
Xilo-collage
2002.3245
Sin título (Ramona levantando pesas)
Antonio Berni
1963
Xilo-collage
2001.366
Ramona en la calle
Antonio Berni
1964, copy signed 1966
Xilo-collage
2003.406
Ramona costurera
Antonio Berni
1963
Xilo-collage
2003.259
Antonio Berni
1962
Goauche, wood, and metal, including coffee tin and tea cans, chicken wire, and mesh; egg carton, cardboard, lace, wine corks, and broom fibers on plywood
2019.179
Juanito va a la ciudad
Antonio Berni
1963
Wood, paint, industrial trash, cardboard, scrap metal, leather, and fabric on wood
2007.1167
La sordidez
Antonio Berni
c. 1964
Polymateric construction composed of wood, cardboard, plastic, roots, nails, enamel, and metals including steel, iron, and aluminum bottle caps
2004.1536