Rue l'Épic
1978 · Etching
plate: 8 1/4 x 10 5/8" (21 x 27 cm); sheet: 12 7/16 x 17 15/16" (31.6 x 45.5 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Antonio Segui
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PaintingFiguration
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None documented
2
Institutional Exhibitions
26
Works in Collection
56
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1
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A Museum Menagerie
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1975–1976
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The Artist as Adversary
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1971
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Antonio Segui was an Argentine painter and printmaker whose work emerged from postwar figuration and urban observation. Operating primarily across Europe and Latin America, he developed a distinctive visual language centered on crowded street scenes, architectural fragments, and the rhythms of metropolitan life rendered through a controlled, almost graphic sensibility. His compositions combined precise draftsmanship with a muted palette to capture the psychological texture of modern urban experience.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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