Untitled (The Fallen Angel)
1937 · Colored pencil and pencil on cut-and-pasted printed paper
5 1/8 x 9 1/4" (13 x 23.5 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Juan Batlle Planas
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WA-00035175
SurrealismRealismAbstract Art
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- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
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Juan Batlle Planas was an Argentine painter and draughtsman working in oil and ink whose biomorphic forms and gestural mark-making suggested psychological states without narrative. Active in Buenos Aires during the 1940s and 1950s, his work bridged Surrealism and abstraction, establishing a distinctive formal language that shaped the trajectory of abstract art across Latin America in the postwar period.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 29d ago
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New York, US
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