Parkett no. 24
1990 · Journal
page 10 x 8 1/4" (25 x 21 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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André Thomkins
Artist
WA-00029747
Painting
Representation
None documented
1
Institutional Exhibitions
11
Works in Collection
21
Assets Indexed
1
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0
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80%
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Prints: Acquisitions 1977�1981
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1981–1982
Field Verification (1 fields)
0 cross-verified · 1 single-source
- LocationGallery Hauser· 80%
Source Registry (2)
- Hauser-WirthTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
About
Why this artist matters now
André Thomkins was a Swiss artist working across drawing, painting, and experimental notation systems in the postwar period. His practice emerged from an engagement with automatic and chance-based processes, creating densely layered compositions that resisted conventional representation. Operating largely outside institutional frameworks, Thomkins developed a distinctive visual language that treated the canvas as a field for linguistic and gestural investigation rather than pictorial resolution.
Source: Hauser Wirth · Trust score: 100% · Updated 1mo ago
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11 published of 19 catalogued · 15 with image
- MoMA10 publishedof 18 catalogued14 img
- Tate1 published1 img
Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 1)
1 entries · 1 sources
- 1978 · Tate · 1 provUrl Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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