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Luis Felipe Noé

Three Doors (Tres Puertas)

Maker

Luis Felipe Noé (Argentine, b. 1933)

Title

painting

Year

1964

Medium

  • Oil on wood,
  • three parts

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Oil on wood,
  • three parts

Materials

oil paint

Supports

  • wood

Dimensions

203.5 x 200.3 x 6.7 cm (80 1/8 x 78 7/8 x 2 5/8 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Modern Latin American Art

Object Number

66.078

Type

  • Paintings

Publications

  • Books

The First America: Selections From the Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Latin American Art: An Exhibition of Works from the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Alt Author: Author Stringer, John, New England Foundation for the Arts.

Exhibition History

Multi-Part Art
Contemporary Works in the Collection
Jul 11, 2008 – Mar 29, 2009

Label copy

Luis Felipe Noé was a member of the New Figuration group working in Buenos Aires in the 1960s. He used vivid colors and a crude, highly expressive approach to figurative painting that he felt were appropriate for depicting the essentially chaotic nature of contemporary society. Three Doors belongs to a series of works in which the artist experimented with multiple surfaces and forms of polyptych, challenging the usual notion of painting as a two-dimensional surface hung on the wall. The work is executed on the surfaces of three joined doors. It reflects the artist’s interest in utilizing found materials and popular motifs such as street art and graffiti.

Artistic Expressions of the Human Spirit
Selections from the Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Modern Latin American Art
Nov 21, 1997 – Apr 26, 1998
"De Donde Vengo"
Selections from the Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Modern Latin American Art
Mar 15, 1996 – Apr 28, 1996
From the Reserve II
Twentieth-Century Painting
Jun 24, 1994 – Aug 27, 1994
Migrations
Latin American Art and the Modernist Imagination
Feb 21, 1992 – Apr 26, 1992
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Luis Felipe Noé (Argentine, b. 1933)
painting, 1964
oil on wood; three parts
203.5 x 200.3 x 6.7 cm (80 1/8 x 78 7/8 x 2 5/8 inches)
Nancy Sayles Day Collection of Modern Latin American Art 66.078

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