Duino

César Paternosto · 1966

This is Duino — a painting by the Argentine artist César Paternosto, nineteen sixty-six. Oil on canvas — pigment ground into a slow-drying oil, which is what lets a painter go back into wet paint for days.

Medium Oil on canvas, in two parts · Dimensions 6' 6 3/4" x 51 3/8" (200 x 130.5 cm) and 6' 6 1/8" x 51" (198.4 x 129.5 cm) · Credit Inter-American Fund

Hanging beside it in Gallery 415: Turnsole, First Requiem

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Composition, Cut-out Frame no. 2, Curves and Straight Series, Untitled, Untitled from the series Hourglasses, Concrete 61