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Mauricio Lasansky

Mauricio Lasansky

Artist

WA-00028091

PrintmakingExpressionismBaroque

Representation

None documented

11

Institutional Exhibitions

16

Works in Collection

24

Assets Indexed

0

Authority-backed Facts

0

Publications Referenced

90%

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Authority Records (3)

WikidataQ6793620 ULAN500011243

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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American Prints: 1900�1960; Recent Acquisitions: Illustrated Books

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1985–1986

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American Prints: 1913�1963

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1974–1975

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American Prints from the International Program

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1971

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The Artist as His Subject

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1967

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The Artist as His Subject

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1967

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Recent Acquisitions

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1960–1961

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American Prints of the 20th Century

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1954

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Master Prints from the Museum Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1949

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Portraits in Prints

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1948

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Hayter and Studio 17: New Directions in Gravure

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1944

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The Latin-American Collection of the Museum of Modern Art

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1943

Source Registry (1)

MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/3395
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

Why this artist matters now

Mauricio Lasansky was an American printmaker renowned for large-scale intaglio works executed with obsessive technical precision and expressionistic intensity. Born in Argentina and based in Iowa from the 1940s onward, he pioneered the development of color intaglio at a scale that challenged the medium's traditional intimacy. His prints, often achieved through multiple plates and layered inking, combined baroque ornamentation with brutal figural imagery rooted in postwar anxieties. Lasansky's rigorous approach to printmaking as a fine art medium established him as a central figure in twentieth-century American printmaking.

Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 29d ago

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Movement

Expressionism

Medium

Printmaking

Related Artists

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Museum of Modern ArtNew York Art Institute of Chicago

Canonical record

Artworks (16)

Portrait of an Artist

Portrait of an Artist

1961 · Etching and engraving

plate: 20 3/16 x 17" (51.3 x 43.2cm); sheet: 21 7/8 x 18 7/8" (55.5 x 48cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Woman with Lute

1960 · engraving, etching, softground, sand paper, aquatint, electric stippler, scraping, and burnishing

Cleveland Museum of Art

Birth in Cardiel

Birth in Cardiel

1958 · Color etching, drypoint, soft ground, aquatint, electric stippler, shallow surface bite, scraping and burnishing on white wove paper

542 × 817 mm (plate): 585 × 865 mm (sheet)

Art Institute of Chicago

Self-Portrait

1957 · Color engraving, electric stippler, scraping and burnishing in ocre and black on white wove paper

Plate: 90.8 × 52.1 cm (35 3/4 × 20 9/16 in.); Sheet: 94.6 × 56.7 cm (37 1/4 × 22 3/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

1957 · Engraving, drypoint, etching and roulette

Plate 35 5/8 x 20 1/2" (90.5 x 52.1 cm) Sheet 37 1/2 x 22" (95.7 x 55.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Vision

1956 · Etching, engraving, aquatint, soft ground, electric stippler, scraping and burnishing in yellow ocre and black on ivory wove paper

Image/plate: 60.6 × 55.3 cm (23 7/8 × 21 13/16 in.); Sheet: 66.2 × 58.1 cm (26 1/8 × 22 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Spain

1956 · Color etching, engraving, aquatint, soft ground, scraping and burnishing in yellow ocre and black on white wove paper

81 × 52.8 cm (31 15/16 × 20 13/16 in.); Sheet: 86 × 56 cm (33 7/8 × 22 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Wedding of Blood

Wedding of Blood

1951 · Color engraving, etching, gouging, aquatint, soft ground, lift ground, electric stippler, grease ground, scraping and burnishing on ivory wove paper

Image/plate: 51.5 × 73 cm (20 5/16 × 28 3/4 in.); Sheet: 57 × 76 cm (22 1/2 × 29 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

My Boy

1947 · Color engraving, etching, aquatint, soft ground, open-bite, electric stippler, burnishing and scraping on paper

Plate: 42.8 × 35.7 cm (16 7/8 × 14 1/16 in.); Sheet: 53 × 37.8 cm (20 7/8 × 14 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

1947 · Etching, aquatint and engraving

plate: 23 13/16 × 15 13/16" (60.5 × 40.1 cm); sheet: 26 1/4 × 17 15/16" (66.7 × 45.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Dachau

1946 · Engraving, gouging, etching, soft ground aquatint, burnishing and scraping on tan laid paper

Image/plate: 39.8 × 60.1 cm (15 11/16 × 23 11/16 in.); Sheet: 56 × 75 cm (22 1/16 × 29 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Self-Portrait

1945 · Engraving, with scraping and burnishing, on tan wove paper

Plate: 30.4 × 25.1 cm (12 × 9 15/16 in.); Sheet: 40.8 × 33.3 cm (16 1/8 × 13 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Sol y Luna

1945 · Engraving, gouging, etching, soft ground, aquatint, scraping and burnishing on paper

Plate: 40 × 52.3 cm (15 3/4 × 20 5/8 in.); Sheet: 47 × 59.6 cm (18 9/16 × 23 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Doma

1944 · Engraving on paper

Plate: 50.5 × 36.3 cm (19 15/16 × 14 5/16 in.); Sheet: 57.8 × 40.2 cm (22 13/16 × 15 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Tear

1944 · Soft ground etching, aquatint, drypoint, engraving, printed in color

Museum of Modern Art

1938 · Etching and drypoint

plate (irreg.): 15 3/16 x 11 7/8" (38.5 x 30.1cm); sheet: 22 1/8 x 15 3/16" (56.2 x 38.5cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (3)

16 published of 21 catalogued · 16 with image

Art Institute Chicago
10 published10 img
MoMA
5 publishedof 10 catalogued6 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
1 published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 1)

1 entries · 1 sources

Woman with Lute
1960 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Record

Images

Mauricio Lasansky (Wikipedia)

Wikipedia

Artsy artist portrait

Artsy

The Vision (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

4

Movements2

Expressionism Baroque

Collections2

Museum of Modern Art Art Institute of Chicago

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago