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Gabor Peterdi

Gabor Peterdi

Hungarian-American, 1915–2001

New York City

PaintingExpressionism

Representation

None documented

15

Institutional Exhibitions

77

Works in Collection

123

Assets Indexed

0

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Publications Referenced

90%

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Movements

• Expressionism

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Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Surrealist Prints from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1987

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American Prints: 1900�1960; Recent Acquisitions: Illustrated Books

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1985–1986

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American Prints: 1913�1963

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1974–1975

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American Prints from the International Program

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1971

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Contemporary Painters and Sculptors as Printmakers

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1964

About

Why this artist matters now

Gabor Peterdi was a Hungarian-born American printmaker and painter whose mastery of intaglio techniques, particularly etching and engraving, made him a defining figure in postwar American printmaking. Working from the 1940s onward, he developed a lyrical abstract vocabulary that merged gestural mark-making with precise linear composition, often drawing on architectural and natural forms. His prints and paintings were instrumental in elevating the technical and conceptual possibilities of the medium during a period when printmaking was undergoing significant artistic renewal in the United States.

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Movement

Expressionism

Medium

Painting

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Museum of Modern ArtNew York Art Institute of Chicago

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Artworks (77)

The Big Wetland I

1982 · Oil on canvas

60 × 80 in. (152.4 × 203.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Red Eclipse II

1969 · Color relief etching on zinc on white wove paper

Image/plate: 25.7 × 18.2 cm (10 1/8 × 7 3/16 in.); Sheet: 31 × 23.5 cm (12 1/4 × 9 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

A Genesis (plate, folio 4) from A Genesis

1967 · Etching, aquatint, and engraving from an illustrated book with thirteen etchings (some with aquatint, engraving, drypoint, and embossing), one engraving, and one aquatint

plate: 13 9/16 × 10 13/16" (34.5 × 27.5 cm); sheet: 20 × 14 15/16" (50.8 × 38 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Catalpa (plate, folio 31) from A Genesis

1967 · Etching and engraving from an illustrated book with thirteen etchings (some with aquatint, engraving, drypoint, and embossing), one engraving, and one aquatint

plate: 10 13/16 × 13 7/8" (27.5 × 35.2 cm); sheet: 15 × 19 15/16" (38.1 × 50.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Sunset and After (plate, folio 34) from A Genesis

1967 · Etching, aquatint, and engraving from an illustrated book with thirteen etchings (some with aquatint, engraving, drypoint, and embossing), one engraving, and one aquatint

plate: 15 11/16 × 12 1/16" (39.8 × 30.6 cm); sheet: 19 13/16 × 14 15/16" (50.4 × 38 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Thicket (plate, folio 37) from A Genesis

1967 · Etching and engraving from an illustrated book with thirteen etchings (some with aquatint, engraving, drypoint, and embossing), one engraving, and one aquatint

plate: 13 11/16 × 10 13/16" (34.7 × 27.5 cm); sheet: 20 × 14 15/16" (50.8 × 38 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Flowering (plate, folio 40) from A Genesis

1967 · Etching, aquatint, and engraving from an illustrated book with thirteen etchings (some with aquatint, engraving, drypoint, and embossing), one engraving, and one aquatint

plate: 13 13/16 × 11" (35.1 × 27.9 cm); sheet: 20 3/16 × 14 5/8" (51.3 × 37.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

1967 · Illustrated book with thirteen etchings (some with aquatint, engraving, drypoint, and embossing), one engraving, and one aquatint

page (each approx.): 20 1/16 × 14 15/16" (51 × 38 cm); overall (closed): 20 9/16 × 15 3/8 × 1" (52.3 × 39 × 2.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Movements and affiliations

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago