The Hidden Order
1972 · Acrylic on canvas
42 x 42 x 2 3/4" (106.7 x 106.7 x 7 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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César Paternosto
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The 1960s: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1967
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- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
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César Paternosto is an Argentine painter and theorist born in 1931 whose abstract work engages with color relationships and geometric composition. Working primarily in oil on canvas, his practice emerged from postwar modernism and has consistently interrogated the autonomy of color as a structural and expressive element. Paternosto has written extensively on color theory and the history of abstraction in Latin American art.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 1mo ago
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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