
Light in the Landscape (Luci nel paesaggio)
Catalogue
- Year
- 1915
- Medium
- Charcoal on paper
- Dimensions
- 21 1/2 x 18 1/8" (54.6 x 46 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Emilio Pettoruti
Artist

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.
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Green-Gray Goblet
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Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Emilio Pettoruti
- Year
- 1915
- Medium
- Charcoal on paper
- Dimensions
- 21 1/2 x 18 1/8" (54.6 x 46 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1915-M085268
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified

