Provenance

The artist.
[Alfredo Boulton, Caracas, acquired from the artist]
? - September 1997, Sylvia Boulton, Caracas, inherited from Alfredo Boulton.
September 1997 - 2016, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York, and Caracas, purchased from Sylvia Boulton.
2016, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, acquired as gift from Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.

Medium Painted iron
Dimensions 65 3/16 × 49 5/8 × 33 7/16" (165.5 × 126 × 85 cm)
Credit Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund in honor of Federica Rodríguez-Cisneros
Object number 873.2016
Department Painting & Sculpture

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Jesús Rafael Soto

Jesús Rafael Soto

Venezuelan, 1923–2005 33 works online

The artist Jesús Rafael Soto remembered days working as a messenger in his childhood. It was something I never got tired of seeing, that vibrating mass floating in space and shining over the roads.

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