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Plate I (folio 3) from Voluspa
1965 · One from a portfolio of thirteen screenprints
composition (irreg.): 23 1/2 × 16 7/16" (59.7 × 41.8 cm); sheet: 27 9/16 × 19 13/16" (70 × 50.3 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Richard Mortensen
1910–1993
PaintingGeometric AbstractionColor Field
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19
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22
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4
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- • Geometric Abstraction
- • Color Field
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Richard Mortensen was a Danish painter and pioneer of geometric abstraction in Northern Europe. Working primarily in oil on canvas from his Copenhagen studio, he developed a distinctive vocabulary of interlocking planes and austere color fields that emerged in the 1930s. His practice remained committed to non-representational form throughout his six-decade career, positioning him as a foundational figure in post-war Danish modernism.
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