Random Distribution of 40,000 Squares Using the Odd and Even Numbers of a Telephone Directory, 50% Blue, 50% Red

François Morellet · 1960

This is Random Distribution of 40,000 Squares Using the Odd and Even Numbers of a Telephone Directory, 50% Blue, 50% Red — a painting by François Morellet, nineteen sixty. Oil on canvas — pigment ground into a slow-drying oil, which is what lets a painter go back into wet paint for days. Somewhere in there: the textile pattern, and the single colour field.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 40 5/8 x 40 5/8" (103 x 103 cm) · Credit Enid A. Haupt Fund

Hanging beside it in Gallery 421: Measurement Room, Synchromy in Dark Blue