Displacement of a Luminous Element

Jesús Rafael Soto · 1954

This is Displacement of a Luminous Element — a painting by Soto, nineteen fifty-four. Tempera: pigment bound in egg, which dries within minutes and cannot be blended once down.

Medium Vinyl on plexiglass and tempera on board and wood · Dimensions 19 11/16 × 31 1/2 × 1 5/16" (50 × 80 × 3.3 cm) · Credit Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund in honor of Susana and Ricardo Steinbruch

Hanging beside it in Gallery 410: Untitled (Fragment 5) from Fragments, Untitled (Fragment 4) from the series Fragments

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Untitled (Fragment 4) from the series Fragments, (3+4) SR

More by Jesús Rafael Soto here: Homage to Yves Klein, Double Transparency, Untitled, Olive and Black