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Elementary Principles #2

1970-1975

Jan Kubicek

Associated Names

Jan Kubicek

Artist, Czech, born 1927

The image shows a large sheet of paper divided into four equal quadrants by two intersecting lines, one vertical and one horizontal, creating an abstract cross shape at the center. The lines offer a sense of structure within the abstract space.

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Artwork overview

Medium

pen and ink
Credit Line

Gift of the Anne and Jacques Baruch Collection
Dimensions

image: 58.6 x 42 cm (23 1/16 x 16 9/16 in.)
Accession Number

2002.50.66.a

Elementary Principles #2

Jan Kubicek

1970

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. Anne Baruch, Chicago; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Z. Baruch

Inscriptions

signed bottom center on support in graphite: Jan Kubicek 1970-75

Wikidata ID

Q64580748

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