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20.06 2011

The classics of post-war abstract art in Bilbao.

Painterly Abstraction
Mark Rothko. Untitled, 1952–53. Oil on canvas. 300 x 442.5 cm. Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa GBM1996.4
Painterly Abstraction
Morris Louis. 1-68, 1962. Acrylic resin on canvas. 212.7 x 106.7 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 67.1846
Painterly Abstraction
Piero Manzoni. Achrome, 1958–59. Fabric and gesso on canvas. 70.5 x 50.2 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Gift, Estate of Geraldine Spreckels Fuller 2001.14
Painterly Abstraction
Conrad Marca-Relli. Warrior, 1956. Oil and canvas collage on canvas. 215.9 x 127 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 57.1458
‘Painterly Abstraction’ at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
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The ‘Painterly Abstraction’ exhibition explores major trends in U.S. and European painting in the 1950s and 1960s. The exhibition features approximately 80 works by more than 60 international artists, including Karel Appel, Alberto Burri, Willem de Kooning, Ellsworth Kelly, Piero Manzoni, Jackson Pollock, Antoni Tàpies, and Victor Vasarely, among others.

Exhibition dates: June 14, 2011 through January 8, 2012.

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