Uphe

Tomma Abts · 2011

Before you is Uphe — a painting by Tomma Abts, two thousand eleven. Oil on canvas — pigment ground into a slow-drying oil, which is what lets a painter go back into wet paint for days.

Medium Acrylic and oil on canvas · Dimensions 19 x 15" (48.1 x 38.1 cm) · Credit Gift of Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis

Hanging beside it in Gallery 203: iamb: Chapter 12, Excerpts and Exceptions, with Painting Rack, Rot-gelb-schwarzes Doppelellipsoid 'Zwilling' (Red-Yellow-Black Double Ellipsoid "Twin")

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Some, Some, Some, Some, Woman with Pails: Dynamic Arrangement, Concrete 61