March 15, 1994
1994 · Oil on paper, four parts
Each 119 3/4 x 30 3/8" (304 x 77 cm), overall 119 3/4 x 121 1/4" (304 x 308 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Michel Parmentier
Artist
WA-00033166
MinimalismConceptual ArtGeometric Abstraction
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2
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7
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- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
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Michel Parmentier was a French painter who used geometric abstraction and industrial materials to interrogate the formal properties of painting itself. His systematic investigations of color, line, and surface anticipated minimalism and process-based art practices that emerged in the following decades. Working across the postwar period until 2000, Parmentier developed a rigorous conceptual approach that treated the canvas as a site for formal experimentation rather than expression.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 27d ago
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2 published of 4 catalogued · 4 with image
- MoMA2 publishedof 4 catalogued4 img
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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