Tabernacle

1956

Arnulf Rainer

Associated Names
Arnulf Rainer

Artist, Austrian, 1929 - 2025

The image depicts a series of intersecting black lines forming a grid pattern, with a larger rectangular shape at the top and a narrower one extending downward. The lines create a dense, abstract composition with a crosshatched texture, resembling architectural scaffolding or a stylized lighthouse structure. The artwork conveys complexity and repetition through its concentration of lines, evoking connections to everyday constructions or industrial frameworks.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Collectors Committee

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 52.4 x 36.5 cm (20 5/8 x 14 3/8 in.)
    plate: 34.6 x 23.5 cm (13 5/8 x 9 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2004.5.8

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Acquired by NGA in 2004 from Joshua P. Smith, Washington, D.C.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2004

  • Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

Inscriptions

recto: below plate in graphite; lower left: 3/27; lower right: Rainer; in plate in plate: RAINER '56 / [scraped out] TABERNAKEL; verso: none

Markings

none

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q76336291

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