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Futurist Composition

Emilio PettorutiWW-1914-M144164
1914·Oil on canvas·15 × 18" (38.1 × 45.7 cm)

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Year
1914
Dimensions
15 × 18" (38.1 × 45.7 cm)

Artist

Emilio Pettoruti
Emilio Pettoruti

Painting

Emilio Pettoruti was an Argentine painter and sculptor who developed a distinctive approach to cubism and abstraction during the early twentieth century. Working across painting, sculpture, and printmaking, he synthesized European modernist vocabularies with Argentine artistic concerns, creating compositions marked by geometric rigor and chromatic intensity. Based in Buenos Aires and Europe at different periods of his career, Pettoruti became a central figure in introducing avant-garde abstraction to Latin American audiences.

Paris, France

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Year
1914
Dimensions
15 × 18" (38.1 × 45.7 cm)
Watts ID
WW-1914-M144164

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Source
moma
Status
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Artist

Emilio Pettoruti

Emilio Pettoruti

Painting

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