Untitled
2002 · Charcoal and colored pencil on notebook paper in artist's frame
15 7/8 x 19 3/4 x 5/8" (40.3 x 50.2 x 1.6 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
WATTS INDEXThe canonical database of visual culture
Bjarne Melgaard
1967
WA-00014501
Painting
Representation
None documented
0
Institutional Exhibitions
3
Works in Collection
16
Assets Indexed
7
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
60%
Profile Completeness
Cultural Positioning
Influence Graph
No influence edges encoded yet.
Authority Records (1)
Field Verification (5 fields)
1 cross-verified · 4 single-source
- Birth yearArtsy· 92%✓
- NationalityWikidata + Artsy· 92%
- LocationArtsy + Wikidata· 85%
- Primary mediumWikidata· 92%
- BiographyWikipedia· 88%
Source Registry (1)
- Thaddaeus-RopacTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
About
Why this artist matters now
Bjarne Melgaard is a Norwegian artist based in New York City. He has been described as "one of Norway's most important artists" and, following the 2014 publicity about his sculpture Chair, "the most famous Norwegian artist since Edvard Munch."
Source: Thaddaeus Ropac · Trust score: 100% · Updated 1mo ago
Graph relationships
Taste overlap and adjacency
Movement
—
Medium
Painting
Related Artists
6 in graph
Institutional
Museum Collections
Canonical record
Artworks (3)
Artwork sources (2)
3 published of 4 catalogued · 3 with image
- MoMA3 published3 img
- + 1 more source · 1 catalogued, not yet published
Record
Images
12 assets
View all 12 media items →
Relationships
1Collections1
Institutional
Representation & Collections
In collection
Whitney Museum of American Art
Record
Exhibitions and timeline
No exhibitions or timeline entries yet