Prometheus Steals the Fire
1982 · Graphite and ink on paper
support: 559 x 762 mm
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Peter De Francia
British-French, 1921
Paris, France
PaintingRealismGeometric AbstractionFiguration
Representation
None documented
2
Institutional Exhibitions
14
Works in Collection
18
Assets Indexed
4
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Publications Referenced
90%
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- • Realism
- • Geometric Abstraction
- • Figuration
- • Social Realism
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Drawing since 1940
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1987
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Recent Acquisitions: Drawings
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1981
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Peter De Francia was a British painter and printmaker whose work engaged with social realism and abstraction in the postwar period. Working primarily in oil and etching, he developed a practice that moved between figuration and geometric abstraction, often incorporating themes of urban experience and labor. De Francia was active in British artistic circles during a period of significant modernist experimentation and social consciousness in visual culture.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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