Poésie de mots inconnus
Catalogue
- Year
- 1949
- Dimensions
- page (each approx.): 12 5/8 × 9 13/16" (32 × 25 cm); overall (closed): 13 3/4 × 10 15/16 × 11/16" (35 × 27.8 × 1.7 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Alberto Magnelli
Artist
Painting
Alberto Magnelli was an Italian painter and sculptor whose geometric abstractions emerged from Cubism in the early 1910s and remained rooted in formal reduction throughout his career. Working primarily in oil on canvas and bronze, he developed a vocabulary of interlocking planes and muted earth tones that eschewed both representation and expressive gesture. Based in Paris from the 1920s onward, Magnelli sustained a commitment to constructive abstraction across six decades, treating color and form as autonomous structural elements rather than vehicles for personal emotion.
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Plate (folio 26) from Hommage à Roger Lacourière
1968 · Etching and aquatint from an illustrated book with twelve etchings (two with aquatint, two with drypoint, one with aquatint and drypoint) and one drypoint
Plate 14 from Futurists, Abstractionists, Dadaists: the Forerunners of the Avant-Garde, vol. I
1962 · Etching and aquatint from an illustrated book with nineteen etchings (three with drypoint, two with aquatint, and one with aquatint and embossing) and one engraving
Opposition from Art of Today, Masters of Abstract Art (Art d'aujourd'hui, maîtres de l'art abstrait), Album I
1953 · One from a portfolio of sixteen screenprint reproductions
In-text plate (folio 14) from Poésie de mots inconnus
1949 · Etching and aquatint from an illustrated book with seven woodcuts, seven etchings (two with aquatint, one with engraving), six lithographs, three drypoints, two engravings, one aquatint, and one linoleum cut
Plate (folio 18) from 10 Origin
1942 · Woodcut from a portfolio of six linoleum cuts, three woodcuts, and one lithograph
Plate (folio 31) from 23 Gravures
1934 · Etching from an illustrated book with twelve etchings (one with aquatint and drypoint), five drypoints, three engravings (one with drypoint), two lithographs, and one woodcut
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- Alberto Magnelli
- Year
- 1949
- Dimensions
- page (each approx.): 12 5/8 × 9 13/16" (32 × 25 cm); overall (closed): 13 3/4 × 10 15/16 × 11/16" (35 × 27.8 × 1.7 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1949-M025611
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- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
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- Status
- verified