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Renzo Vespignani

Renzo Vespignani

Italian, 1924–2001

WA-00029915

Rome, Italy

PaintingExpressionism

Representation

None documented

6

Institutional Exhibitions

12

Works in Collection

23

Assets Indexed

7

Authority-backed Facts

0

Publications Referenced

90%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

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Authority Records (3)

WikidataQ646763 ULAN500018903

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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The Artist as Adversary

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1971

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Around the Automobile

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1965–1966

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Modern Masterprints of Europe

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1954–1955

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Faces and Figures: Drawings from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1954

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Recent Acquisitions

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1950

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Twentieth Century Italian Art

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1949

Field Verification (5 fields)

4 cross-verified · 1 single-source

NationalityMoMA + Duplicate Merge· 93%✓
Birth yearMoMA + Duplicate Merge· 93%✓
LocationMoMA· 93%✓
Death yearDuplicate Merge· 85%✓
BiographyMoMA· 93%

Source Registry (1)

MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/6140
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

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Graph relationships

Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

Expressionism

Medium

Painting

Related Artists

12 in graph

Institutional

Museum Collections

Museum of Modern ArtNew York Cleveland Museum of Art

Canonical record

Artworks (12)

1962 · Color lithograph

Image: 13 3/16 × 17 7/8 in. (33.5 × 45.4 cm) Sheet: 15 3/4 × 21 3/4 in. (40 × 55.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

1959 · Lithograph

Sheet: 18 × 24 in. (45.7 × 61 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Accident

1958 · Etching and aquatint

plate: 12 1/4 × 12 13/16" (31.1 × 32.5 cm); sheet: 17 15/16 × 21 3/16" (45.5 × 53.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

1957 · Color lithograph

Image: 13 5/16 × 17 11/16 in. (33.8 × 45 cm) Sheet: 16 5/16 × 21 3/4 in. (41.4 × 55.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Old Accident

1957 · Etching and aquatint

plate: 8 3/4 × 14 3/8" (22.2 × 36.5 cm); sheet: 13 3/4 × 19 11/16" (34.9 × 50 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Beach at Ostia

1949 · pen and brush and black ink and brush and gray wash

Sheet: 33 x 60.5 cm (13 x 23 13/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Prison Scene

1949 · Ink on paper

14 1/8 x 10 3/4" (35.9 x 27.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Hanged Man

1949 · Ink on paper

15 7/8 x 7 1/4" (40.3 x 18.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from 6 Etchings by Muccini, Urbinati, Vespignani (6 acqueforti di Muccini, Urbinati, Vespignani)

Untitled from 6 Etchings by Muccini, Urbinati, Vespignani (6 acqueforti di Muccini, Urbinati, Vespignani)

1947 · Etching from a portfolio of six etchings and one ink drawing

plate: 6 5/16 × 9 7/8" (16.1 × 25.1 cm); sheet: 13 3/4 × 19 9/16" (35 × 49.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from 6 Etchings by Muccini, Urbinati, Vespignani (6 acqueforti di Muccini, Urbinati, Vespignani)

Untitled from 6 Etchings by Muccini, Urbinati, Vespignani (6 acqueforti di Muccini, Urbinati, Vespignani)

1947 · Etching from a portfolio of six etchings and one ink drawing

plate: 9 5/8 × 11 11/16" (24.4 × 29.7 cm); sheet: 13 3/4 × 19 9/16" (35 × 49.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Wall

1947 · Ink on paper

7 1/2 x 18 3/8" (19 x 46.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Ruined Building

Ruined Building

1946 · Ink on paper

14 3/4 x 10 3/4" (37.5 x 27.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (3)

12 published of 20 catalogued · 16 with image

MoMA
8 publishedof 16 catalogued16 img
The Met
3 published
Cleveland Museum of Art
1 published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 1)

1 entries · 1 sources

The Beach at Ostia
1949 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Record

Images

Artsy artist portrait

Artsy

Art Institute of Chicago Addition, Concept Sketch Perspective (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Art Institute of Chicago Addition, Concept Sketch Perspective (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

3

Movements1

Collections2

Museum of Modern Art Cleveland Museum of Art

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art