Untitled
1968 · Black ink, purple and black spray paint, white enamel paint and match sticks on cream wove paper
48 × 28.7 cm (18 15/16 × 11 5/16 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Carol Rama
Italian, 1918–2015
WA-00034675
Turin, Italy
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- Birth yearMoMA + Duplicate Merge· 93%✓
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- Death yearDuplicate Merge· 85%✓
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- TheholeTier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
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Carol Rama was an Italian painter and draughtsman whose abstract and figurative works emerged from postwar Turin's experimental culture. Working across ink, watercolor, and oil, she developed a distinctive visual language combining gestural abstraction with erotic and mythological imagery. Her practice remained largely independent of mainstream art-historical narratives, sustained by a commitment to formal invention and psychological intensity that deepened across seven decades of production.
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Museum of Modern Art
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Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
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