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Artists Reimagining the Collection
Meet the 50 makers selected from more than 1,600 submissions

Untitled

1971

Karel Malich

Associated Names

Karel Malich

Artist, Czech, born 1924

The artwork features flowing colored lines on the canvas. A set of parallel lines in shades of yellow, pink, blue, and purple sweep upward and are interwoven with wavy, ribbon-like lines that cascade downward. Nearby, a graceful spiral is created with delicately looping strands, forming a shape similar to a musical clef or a dancer's arm. Scattered around the spiral are small dot-like markings.

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Artwork overview

Medium

felt tip or architecture pens and colored inks
Credit Line

Gift of the Anne and Jacques Baruch Collection
Dimensions

image: 61.8 x 87 cm (24 5/16 x 34 1/4 in.)
Accession Number

2002.50.86

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Mr. and Mrs. Jacques Z. Baruch

Inscriptions

signed verso in graphite: Pero Lara (?) Baracka, K. Malich 1971; verso bottom right in graphite by later hand: 1975.689I

Wikidata ID

Q64591804

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