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Louise Nevelson
Verso1959

Not on view
Wall-mounted wood relief sculpture, assembled from planks, slats, and irregular scraps painted uniform dusty rose-brown, with angled blade-like and curved forms at center against a rectilinear grid of boards
Artist or Maker
Louise Nevelson
Russian Empire (Now Ukraine), active United States, 1899-1988
Title
Verso
Place Made
United States, New York
Date Made
1959
Medium
Painted wood
Dimensions
32 1/8 x 28 3/16 x 3 3/16 in. (81.44 x 71.44 x 7.94 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Blankfort through the Contemporary Art Council
Accession Number
M.73.80
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
Modern Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Blankfort, Michael; Edgerton, Anne Carnegie and MauriceTuchman. The Michael and Dorothy Blankfort Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1982.
Copyright
© Estate of Louise Nevelson/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

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