Untitled from Voltage
2007 · One from a portfolio of nine etchings and Xerox with chine collé
plate: 10 7/8 x 8 3/8" (27.6 x 21.2 cm); sheet: 16 x 16" (40.6 x 40.6 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Barry Le Va
American, 1941
WA-00028116
Long Beach, CA, USA
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None documented
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Institutional Exhibitions
38
Works in Collection
69
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4
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Contemporary Sculpture: Selections from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1979
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A Selection of Drawings and Watercolors from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1971
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- BiographyMoMA· 93%✓
- Birth yearMoMA· 93%✓
- LocationMoMA· 93%✓
- NationalityMoMA· 93%✓
Source Registry (1)
- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
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Barry Le Va was an American artist known for large-scale installations and floor-based works that emerged from process and chance. Working primarily with scattered materials, powders, and geometric arrangements, his practice challenged the conventions of painting and sculpture by treating the gallery floor as an active field of composition. Active from the 1960s onward, Le Va's dispersed and accumulative works engaged with entropy, gravity, and the physical traces of artistic decision-making itself.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 29d ago
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38 published of 67 catalogued · 59 with image
- MoMA30 publishedof 59 catalogued53 img
- Art Institute Chicago6 published6 img
- Cleveland Museum of Art1 published
- Whitney1 published
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- 1976 · Cleveland · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
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Cleveland Museum of Art
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Museum of Modern Art
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