Untitled

Primary Juan Batlle Planas (Torroella de Montgri, Girona, Spain, 1911–Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1966)

NationalityArgentinean, South America

Date1932

MediumTempera on paper

DimensionsSheet: 8 × 6 9/16 in. (20.3 × 16.7 cm)

Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Museum purchase with funds provided by Michael Chesser, 2008.112

Keywords

nonrepresentational

Rights Statement

IN COPYRIGHT

Collection AreaPrints and Drawings

Object number2008.112

On View

Not on view

Collection Highlight

Latin American Art: 1900–1949

Label Text

Web Comments

Initially an important artist in the Argentine surrealist movement, Juan Batlle Planas shifted his focus to abstraction during the 1950s. He brought to this new mode the same interest in delicate and unique color balances that characterizes most of his paintings. Flat areas of mauve and lavender shine against a dark background, surrounded by a remarkable array of warm grays—silver, pewter, graphite, and charcoal.

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