Untitled
1966
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View on museum website →Medium
lithograph (stone) in black on white Nacre paper
Dimensions
sheet: 27.8 x 25 cm (10 15/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Dorothy J. and Benjamin B. Smith
Accession Number
1983.18.532
Art Historical Context
Gego's *Untitled* (1966) is a striking lithograph created on stone in bold black ink against shimmering white Nacre paper, a compact 27.8 x 25 cm. Housed in the National Gallery of Art's print collection (a generous gift from Dorothy J. Benjamin B. Smith), work exemplifies the Venezuelan artist's mastery of line and form during her prolific mid-1960s period. Born Gertrud Goldsmidt in Germany in 1912, Gego fled Europe during World War II and settled in Caracas, Venezuela, where she pioneered abstract geometric art influenced by constructivism and kinetic movements. Her prints, like this one, o...