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Villa Nueve
1982 · Lithograph
Sheet: 28 × 33 in. (71.1 × 83.8 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Conrad Marca-Relli
American, 1913–2000
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8
Institutional Exhibitions
16
Works in Collection
20
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5
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Printed, Cut, Folded, and Torn
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1974
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The New American Painting and Sculpture: The First Generation
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1969
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American Collages
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1965
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The Art of Assemblage
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1961
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Selections from the Art Lending Service
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960
About
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Conrad Marca-Relli was an American abstract painter and collage artist whose layered, gestural compositions emerged from the postwar New York School. Working primarily in oil and canvas collage, he built complex surfaces by tearing and reassembling painted fragments, creating a dynamic tension between composition and accident. His work occupied a distinctive middle ground between gestural abstraction and constructive process, influencing generations of artists working with collage as a formal language rather than representational device.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Art Institute of Chicago
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