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Mira Schendel

Mira Schendel

Artist

WA-00031060

Painting

Representation

None documented

0

Institutional Exhibitions

67

Works in Collection

133

Assets Indexed

1

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70%

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Authority Records (3)

WikidataQ1747401 ULAN500034420

Field Verification (1 fields)

0 cross-verified · 1 single-source

LocationArtsy· 85%

Source Registry (2)

Hauser-Wirthhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/mira-schendel
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/7961
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

Why this artist matters now

Mira Schendel worked across drawing, printmaking, and sculpture, creating delicate geometries and mark-making that engaged with language, spirituality, and abstraction. Born in Zurich and based in São Paulo from 1953, her practice emerged from postwar experimentalism, producing small-scale works on translucent paper and materials that explored the threshold between legibility and void. Her monotypes, graphite drawings on rice paper, and white-on-white compositions established her as a distinctive voice in Brazilian modernism.

Source: Hauser Wirth · Trust score: 100% · Updated 2mo ago

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Museum Collections

Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern ArtNew York Tate

Canonical record

Artworks (67)

Untitled from the series Splints (Sarrafos)

Untitled from the series Splints (Sarrafos)

1987 · Acrylic on wood

77 15/16 x 70 7/8 x 3 5/8" (198 x 180 x 9.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Trabalho concebido em 1971

Trabalho concebido em 1971

1975 · Artist's book

page 7 7/8 x 7 13/16" (20 x 19.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from the series Typed Writings (Datiloscritos)

Untitled from the series Typed Writings (Datiloscritos)

1974 · Typewriting, ink, and transfer type on paper

19 3/4 x 14 1/4" (50.2 x 36.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled (Disks)

Untitled (Disks)

1972 · Transfer lettering and graphite on paper between acrylic sheets, 4 pins and nylon fishing wire

support: 270 x 270 x 7 mm

Untitled from Graphic Objects (Objetos gráficos)

Untitled from Graphic Objects (Objetos gráficos)

1967 · Graphite, transfer type, and oil on paper between transparent acrylic sheets with transfer type

39 5/16 x 39 5/16 x 3/8" (99.8 x 99.8 x 1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from the series Letters and Lines (Letras e Linhas)

Untitled from the series Letters and Lines (Letras e Linhas)

1966 · Oil transfer drawing on paper

18 1/2 x 9 1/8" (47 x 23.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled (Genesis)

Untitled (Genesis)

1965 · 9 monotypes on paper between 2 Perspex sheets, pins and nylon fishing wire

Left panel of 4 monotypes: 612 x 1237 x 8 mm Right panel of 5 monotypes: 612 x 1537 x 8 mm Individual monotypes: 465 x 229 mm

Untitled from the series Written (Escritas)

Untitled from the series Written (Escritas)

1965 · Oil transfer drawing on paper

17 15/16 × 9 1/16" (45.5 × 23 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from the series Written (Escritas)

Untitled from the series Written (Escritas)

1965 · Oil transfer drawing on paper

18 1/2 x 9 1/16" (47 x 23 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from the series Written (Escritas)

Untitled from the series Written (Escritas)

1965 · Oil transfer drawing on paper

18 1/2 x 9 1/16" (47 x 23 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from the series Written (Escritas)

Untitled from the series Written (Escritas)

1965 · Oil transfer drawing on paper

17 13/16 × 9 1/16" (45.2 × 23 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from the series Written (Escritas)

Untitled from the series Written (Escritas)

1965 · Oil transfer drawing on paper

18 1/2 x 9 1/16" (47 x 23 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1965 · Oil transfer drawing on paper

18 1/8 x 9 1/16" (46 x 23 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1965 · Oil transfer drawing on paper

18 1/8 x 9 1/16" (46 x 23 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

1965 · Japanese paper and nylon

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1965 · Oil transfer drawing on paper

18 1/2 x 9" (47 x 22.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from the series Letters and Lines (Letras e Linhas)

Untitled from the series Letters and Lines (Letras e Linhas)

1965 · Oil transfer drawing on paper

18 1/2 x 9 1/8" (47 x 23.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from the series Letters and Lines (Letras e Linhas)

Untitled from the series Letters and Lines (Letras e Linhas)

1965 · Oil transfer drawing on paper

18 1/2 x 9 1/8" (47 x 23.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1965 · Oil transfer drawing on paper

18 1/2 x 9 1/2" (47 x 24.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

1964 · Monotype on Japanese paper

46.8 × 23 cm (18 7/16 × 9 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1964 · Monotype on Japanese paper

46.8 × 23 cm (18 7/16 × 9 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1964 · Monotype in black on white translucent Eastern paper

46.9 × 23 cm (18 1/2 × 9 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1964 · Monotype on Japanese paper

46.9 × 23 cm (18 1/2 × 9 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled

1964 · Monotype on Japanese paper

46.8 × 23 cm (18 7/16 × 9 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Artwork sources (3)

67 published of 124 catalogued · 123 with image

MoMA
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Art Institute Chicago
7 published7 img
Tate
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Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 2)

2 entries · 1 sources

Untitled
1963 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Untitled (Disks)
1972 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

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Mira Schendel (Wikipedia)

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Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern Art Tate Phillips

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Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

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Tate

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