Maze from American Abstract Artists 60th Anniversary Print Portfolio
1997 · One from a portfolio of forty lithographs
composition (irreg.): 9 3/8 × 11 9/16" (23.8 × 29.4 cm); sheet: 9 5/8 × 12 5/8" (24.5 × 32.1 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Ibram Lassaw
Egyptian-American, 1913–2003
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The New American Painting and Sculpture: The First Generation
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1969
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Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1969
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Twelve Americans
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1956
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Sculpture of the XXth Century
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1953
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New Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1953
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Ibram Lassaw was an Egyptian-born sculptor who pioneered open-form welded steel sculpture in the postwar period. Working primarily in steel and bronze, he developed intricate spatial constructions that emphasize void and transparency over mass, creating architectonic forms that occupy space rather than displace it. His welded abstractions emerged from engagement with both modernist sculpture and ancient Near Eastern metalwork, establishing a vocabulary of intersecting planes and linear elements that influenced the trajectory of American abstract sculpture from the 1950s onward.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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