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Gold Leaf, Red & Black
1981 · Etching and aquatint with gold leaf and varnish additions
plate 26 1/8 x 23 7/8" (66.3 x 60.6 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Valerie Jaudon
Artist
PaintingGeometric Abstraction
Representation
None documented
2
Institutional Exhibitions
2
Works in Collection
6
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- • Geometric Abstraction
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
1980
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76 Jefferson
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1975
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Valerie Jaudon is an American painter known for large-scale geometric abstractions constructed from interlocking linear patterns and symmetrical grids. Working primarily in acrylic and oil on canvas since the 1970s, her compositions employ bold color contrasts and architectural precision to create optical complexity and visual rhythm. Her work emerged from postwar abstraction and engages with pattern, symmetry, and the decorative traditions often marginalized in modernist discourse.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Whitney Museum of American Art
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