Liliana Porter

The Tear
1982

A realistic painting depicting a scattered array of objects on a light background. The objects include a paintbrush with yellow paint, torn pieces of paper with text, a small blue sailboat figurine, a red pencil, and two illustrated cards, one showing a blonde figure and the other with abstract yellow and black designs. The scene conveys a sense of creative process or artistic disarray.

A realistic painting depicting a scattered array of objects on a light background. The objects include a paintbrush with yellow paint, torn pieces of paper with text, a small blue sailboat figurine, a red pencil, and two illustrated cards, one showing a blonde figure and the other with abstract yellow and black designs. The scene conveys a sense of creative process or artistic disarray.

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Date
1982

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Acrylic, graphite pencil, screenprint, collage, and paintbrush

Dimensions
Sheet (Sight): 41 × 59 1/2in. (104.1 × 151.1 cm)

Accession number
2008.133

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Altria Group, Inc.

Rights and reproductions
© Liliana Porter courtesy of Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA

API
artworks/33550

Liliana Porter
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