Abstract Composition
Catalogue
- Year
- 1956
- Dimensions
- 44.6 × 56.6 cm (17 9/16 × 22 5/16 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Conrad Marca-Relli
Artist
Drawing
Conrad Marca-Relli was an American abstract painter and collage artist whose layered, gestural compositions emerged from the postwar New York School. Working primarily in oil and canvas collage, he built complex surfaces by tearing and reassembling painted fragments, creating a dynamic tension between composition and accident. His work occupied a distinctive middle ground between gestural abstraction and constructive process, influencing generations of artists working with collage as a formal language rather than representational device.
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1956 · Collage composed of charcoal and graphite on cut-out, burned and abraded cream wove papers, laid down on black wove paper, laid down on white cardboard
Abstract Composition
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Sleeping Figure
1953 · Collaged painted canvas
Abstract Composition
1951 · Collage composed of graphite on cut-out, burned and abraded cream wove papers, laid down on white cardboard
Untitled
Cut fabric and wax on paper on board
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- Conrad Marca-Relli
- Year
- 1956
- Dimensions
- 44.6 × 56.6 cm (17 9/16 × 22 5/16 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1956-081731
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified