Carlos Almaraz
Crash in Phthalo Green1984

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Geffen Galleries

Artist or Maker: Carlos Almaraz
Mexico, 1941-1989
Title: Crash in Phthalo Green
Place Made: Mexico, active United States
Date Made: 1984
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 42 x 72 in. (106.68 x 182.88 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of the 1992 Collectors Committee
Accession Number: AC1992.136.1
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Contemporary Art
Curatorial Notes: The abstracted yet kinetic forms in his canvas depict a spectacular high-speed fiery car crash on a Los Angeles freeway under a seductively radiant California sky. In his iconic image of car culture in Southern California, Almaraz probes the unsettling psychology of the innate human fascination with images of catastrophe and violence.
Selected Bibliography: Los Angeles County Museum of Art Members' Calendar 1992, vol. 29-30, no. 12-1 (December, 1991-January, 1993).
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Members' Calendar 1993, vol. 31, no. 1-11 (January-November, 1993).
Fox, Howard N. Playing with Fire: Paintings by Carlos Almaraz. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich: DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2017.
Copyright: © The Carlos Almaraz Estate

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On view:

Geffen Galleries

Artist or Maker: Carlos Almaraz
Mexico, 1941-1989
Title: Crash in Phthalo Green
Place Made: Mexico, active United States
Date Made: 1984
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 42 x 72 in. (106.68 x 182.88 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of the 1992 Collectors Committee
Accession Number: AC1992.136.1
Classification: Paintings
Collecting Area: Contemporary Art
Curatorial Notes: The abstracted yet kinetic forms in his canvas depict a spectacular high-speed fiery car crash on a Los Angeles freeway under a seductively radiant California sky. In his iconic image of car culture in Southern California, Almaraz probes the unsettling psychology of the innate human fascination with images of catastrophe and violence.
Selected Bibliography: Los Angeles County Museum of Art Members' Calendar 1992, vol. 29-30, no. 12-1 (December, 1991-January, 1993).
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Members' Calendar 1993, vol. 31, no. 1-11 (January-November, 1993).
Fox, Howard N. Playing with Fire: Paintings by Carlos Almaraz. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich: DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2017.
Copyright: © The Carlos Almaraz Estate