Cocoon no. 2

Lygia Clark · 1959

Before you is Cocoon no. 2 — a painting by Lygia Clark, nineteen fifty-nine. The piece is cellulose nitrate on sheetmetal, about 30 by 30 centimeters. Clark was part of the Antropophagia movement.

Medium Cellulose nitrate on sheetmetal · Dimensions 11 13/16 × 11 13/16 × 4 5/16" (30 × 30 × 11 cm) · Credit Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund in honor of Kathy Halbreich

Hanging beside it in Gallery 512: Curves and Straight Series, Construction of Volume Relations

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Untitled, Untitled, Composition with Color Planes 5, Neoconcrete Relief, Composition with Red and Blue, Composition C

More by Lygia Clark here: Poetic Shelter