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Artists›León Ferrari

León Ferrari

1920–2013

WA-00020849

Buenos Aires, Argentina

SculptureConceptual ArtContemporaryContemporary Conceptual

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

415

Works in Collection

655

Assets Indexed

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Publications Referenced

80%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ324030

MoMA

Field Verification (4 fields)

2 cross-verified · 2 single-source

Birth yearWikidata· 92%✓
LocationGallery Generic· 72%✓
NationalityWikidata· 92%
BiographyWikipedia· 88%

Source Registry (3)

Christies-Artsyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/leon-ferrari
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/1859
Tier 1 · Institutional92%
Wikidata
Tier 1 · Institutional40%

About

Why this artist matters now

No biography available for León Ferrari yet.

Graph relationships

Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

Conceptual Art

Medium

Sculpture

Related Artists

12 in graph

Institutional

Museum Collections

Cleveland Museum of Art Museum of Modern ArtNew York Art Institute of Chicago Tate

Canonical record

Artworks (415)

Beginning and End of Ecology (Principio y fin de la ecologia)

2006 · Pen and black ink on white wove paper

47.9 × 36 cm (18 7/8 × 14 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Despair of the Outcasts in Hell (La desesperación de los réprobos en el infierno)

2005 · Pen and black ink on white wove paper

35 × 24.8 cm (13 13/16 × 9 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Santa Faustina Kowalska 1931

2005 · pen and black ink on wove paper

Sheet: 29.5 x 21 cm (11 5/8 x 8 1/4 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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2001 · Digital print on paper

support: 420 x 297 mm

Tate

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Artwork sources (5)

415 published of 644 catalogued · 589 with image

MoMA
228 publishedof 456 catalogued404 img
Tate
175 published175 img
Art Institute Chicago
9 published9 img
Cleveland Museum of Art
3 published
+ 1 more source · 1 catalogued, not yet published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 10)

10 entries · 1 sources

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1976 · Tate · 1 prov
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2001 · Tate · 1 prov
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1976 · Tate · 1 prov
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2001 · Tate · 1 prov
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2001 · Tate · 1 prov
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Entrance to the Military Headquarters + Military Decoration from the Third Reich
1995 · Tate · 1 prov
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Nuncio Monsignor Calabresi with Galtieri (Photo: NA) + ‘The Lady of the Witches’ Sabbath’ from ‘Histoire de la Magie’ by P. Christian, Paris 1870
1995 · Tate · 1 prov
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1976 · Tate · 1 prov
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The Frigate ‘Escuela Libertad’ + Drawing by Leonardo da Vinci
1995 · Tate · 1 prov
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Footbridges
1981 · Tate · 1 prov
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Record

Images

Artsy

Relationships

Movements3

Conceptual Art Contemporary Contemporary Conceptual

Collections5

Cleveland Museum of Art Museum of Modern Art Art Institute of Chicago Tate Phillips

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Tate

Market

Auction sale history

Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction

Auction house

Phillips

Record

Exhibitions and timeline

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