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The Revenge of the Ugly
1985 · Watercolor and ink on paper
Sheet: 17 3/8 × 23 3/4 in. (44.1 × 60.3 cm)
Image: 17 1/4 × 23 3/8 in. (43.8 × 59.4 cm)
Whitney Museum of American Art
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Luis Frangella
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PaintingColor Field
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5
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9
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- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
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Why this artist matters now
Luis Frangella was an Argentine painter who combined expressive gestural marks with architectural forms and spatial illusion, resisting pure abstraction while remaining fundamentally non-representational. Working across the 1970s and 1980s, he developed a distinctive vocabulary of layered brushwork, structural lines, and color fields that engaged postwar painting's formal concerns. His practice maintained a distinctly Argentine sensibility within an international modernist tradition.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 28d ago
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5 published of 6 catalogued · 2 with image
- Whitney4 published
- MoMA1 publishedof 2 catalogued2 img
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Whitney Museum of American Art
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